What kind of life can you have in a house without books?
It was one of the dullest speeches I ever heard. The Agee woman told us for three quarters of an hour how she came to write her beastly book, when a simple apology was all that was required.
Every poet... finds himself born in the midst of prose. He has to struggle from the littleness and obstruction of an actual world into the freedom and infinitude of an ideal.
The secret of being a bore is to tell everything.
Gentle dullness ever loves a joke.
With increasing age, dullness of mind and heart sets in.
