A cold coming we had of it, / Just the worst time of the year / For a journey. |
A difference of taste in jokes is a great strain on the affections. |
A good half of the effort of understanding what the Indian philosophers were after - and their subtleties make most of the great European philosophers look like schoolboys. |
A play should give you something to think about. When I see a play and understand it the first time, then I know it can't be much good. |
A play should give you something to think about. When I see a play and understand it the first time, then I know it can't be much good. |
A tradition without intelligence is not worth having. |
A woman drew her long black hair out tight / And fiddled whisper music on those strings / And bats with baby faces in the violet light / Whistled. |
After such knowledge, what forgiveness? Think now / History has many cunning passages, contrived corridors / And issues. |
After the erection of the Chinese Wall of Milton, blank verse has suffered not only arrest but retrogression. |
All cases are unique and very similar to others. |
An editor should tell the author his writing is better than it is. Not a lot better, a little better. |
An election is coming. Universal peace is declared and the foxes have a sincere interest in prolonging the lives of the poultry. |
And I have seen the eternal Footman hold my coat, and snicker, / And in short, I was afraid. |
And I will show you something different from either your shadow at morning striding behind you or your shadow at evening rising to meet you; I will show you fear in a handful of dust. |
And indeed there will be time/ To wonder, "Do I dare?" and, "Do I dare?"/ Time to turn back and descend the stair,/ With a bald spot in the middle of my hair. . ./ Do I dare/ Disturb the universe? |