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Poetry had far better imply things than preach them directly ... in the open pulpit her voice grows hoarse and fails.

And how is clarity to be achieved? Mainly by taking trouble and by writing to serve people rather than to impress them.

A man can make himself put down what comes, even if it seems nauseating nonsense; tomorrow some of it may not seem wholly nonsense at all.

Most style is not honest enough.

I have a wife, I have sons; all these hostages have I given to fortune.

At Munich we sold the Czechs for a few months grace, but the disgrace will last as long as history.

The only hope I can see for the future depends on a wiser and braver use of the reason, not a panic flight from it.

Since in the long run deception is likely to be found out, your character had better not only seem good, but be it.

The simile sets two ideas side by side; in the metaphor they become superimposed.