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In a certain sense, a writer is an exile, an outsider, always reporting on things, and it is part of his life to keep on the move. Travel is natural. ”
It's great to listen to men talk about sports or fights or war or even hunting sometimes, but the presence of the other, the presence of art and beauty, which crude masculinity seems to discount, is essential. Real civilization and real manhood seem to me to include those. ”
There is no real beauty without some slight imperfection. ”
I like aristocracy. I like the beauty of aristocracy. I like the hierarchical feeling. ”
For to change the norms, the very foci of attention, of a cultural system is a difficult task - far more complex than that of changing an individual's attitudes and interests. ”
As life runs on, the road grows strange with faces new - and near the end. The milestones into headstones change, Neath every one a friend. ”
Poetry is something to make us wiser and better, by continually revealing those types of beauty and truth, which God has set in all men's souls. ”
The foolish and the dead alone never change their opinions. ”
Usually when people are sad, they don't do anything. They just cry over their condition. But when they get angry, they bring about a change. ”
Beauty is something we can affirm and intend to have more of. ”