Aphorisms Are Essentially An Aristocratic Genre Of

Art Is Our Chief Means Of Breaking Bread With The Dead.

A Poet Can Write About A Man Slaying A Dragon, But Not About A Man Pushing A Button That Releases A Bomb.

Happy The Hare At Morning, For She Cannot Read The Hunter's Waking Thoughts.

If We Apply The Term Revolution To What Happened In North America Between 1776 And 1829, It Has A Special Meaning. Normally, The Word Describes The Process By Which Man Transforms Himself From One Kind Of Man, Living In One Kind Of Society, With One Way Of Looking At The World, Into Another Kind Of Man, Another Society, Another Conception Of Life.... The American Case Is Different: It Is Not A Question Of The Old Man Transforming Himself Into The New, But Of The New Man Becoming Alive To The Fact That He Is New, That He Has Been Transformed Already Without His Having Realized It.

There Was Still Gold And Silver In The Mountains, And Hunger Was A More Immediate Sorrow