He was like a cock who thought the sun had risen to hear him crow. – George Eliot November 29,

Beauty is only skin deep, and the world is full of thin skinned people. March 3, 2023

All changed, changed utterly: A terrible beauty is born. February 27, 2023

Europe has what we do not have yet, a sense of the mysterious and inexorable limits of life, a sense,

Tell me where all past years are… January 3, 2023

It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was

A bank is a place that will lend you money if you can prove that you don’t need it. February

Authority that does not exist for Liberty is not authority but force. February 16, 2022

I can’t think of a case where poems changed the world, but what they do is they change people’s understanding

You and I are birds that don’t fly together. February 16, 2022