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| Hemingway is terribly limited. His technique is good for short stories, for people who meet once in a bar very late at night, but do not enter into relations. But not for the novel. | | Uncategorized | |
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| How happy the lot of the mathematician! He is judged solely by his peers, and the standard is so high that no colleague or rival can ever win a reputation he does not deserve. No cashier writes a letter to the press complaining about the incomprehensibility of Modern Mathematics and comparing it unfavorably with the good old days when mathematicians were content to paper irregularly shaped rooms and fill bathtubs without closing the waste pipe. | | Uncategorized | |
| Hunger allows no choice, To the citizens or the police; We must love one another or die | | Uncategorized | |
| I cannot accept the doctrine that in poetry there is a ''suspension of belief.'' A poet must never make a statement simply because it is sounds poetically exciting; he must also believe it to be true. | | Uncategorized | |
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| I know nothing, except what everyone knows – if there when Graces dances, I should dance. | | Dancing; Grace; Knowledge | |
| I sit in one of the dives On Fifty-Second Street Uncertain and afraid As the clever hopes expire Of a low dishonest decade: Waves of anger and fear Circulate over the bright And darkened lands of the earth, Obsessing our private lives; The unmentiona | | Anger | |
| I'll love you, dear, I'll love you till China and Africa meet and the river jumps over the mountain and the salmon sing in the street. | | Uncategorized | |
| If equal affection cannot be, let the more loving be me | | Affection | |
| If music in general is an imitation of history, opera in particular is an imitation of human willfulness; it is rooted in the fact that we not only have feelings but insist upon having them at whatever cost to ourselves. . . | | Uncategorized | |
| If the most significant characteristic of man is the complex of biological needs he shares with all members of his species, then the best lives for the writer to observe are those in which the role of natural necessity is clearest, namely, the lives of the very poor. | | Uncategorized | |
| If there are any of you at the back who do not hear me, please don't raise your hands because I am also nearsighted. | | Uncategorized | |
| If time were the wicked sheriff in a horse opera, I'd pay for riding lessons and take his gun away. | | Uncategorized | |
| In a land which is fully settled, most men must accept their local environment or try to change it by political means; only the exceptionally gifted or adventurous can leave to seek his fortune elsewhere. In America, on the other hand, to move on and make a fresh start somewhere else is still the normal reaction to dissatisfaction and failure. | | Uncategorized | |
| In a world of prayer, we are all equal in the sense that each of us is a unique person, with a unique perspective on the world, a member of a class of one. | | Uncategorized | |
| In order that people may be happy in their work, these three things are needed: They must be fit for it: they must not do too much of it: and they must have a sense of success in it --not a doubtful sense, such as needs some testimony of others for its confirmation, but a sure sense, or rather knowledge, that so much work has been done well, and fruitfully done, whatever the world may say or think about it. | | Uncategorized | |
| In relation to a writer, most readers believe in the Double Standard: they may be unfaithful to him as often as they like, but he must never, never be unfaithful to them. | | Reading; Writers | |
| In the deserts of the heart let the healing fountain start, in the prison of his days teach the free man how to praise | | Uncategorized | |
| In the nightmare of the dark - All the dogs of Europe bark, And the living nations wait, Each sequestered in its hate | | Uncategorized | |
