My Function As A Writer Is Not

Poetry Brings All Possible Experience To The Same Degree: A Degree In The Consciousness Beyond Which The Consciousness Itself Cannot Go.

She [venison] Had Never Travelled And So Could Invent All Kinds Of Strange Places Without Being Limited, As Travelled People Are, By Knowledge Of Certain Places Only.

Daisy Was A Consciously Happy Young Woman Without Any Of The Usual Endowments That Make For Conscious Happiness, Money Apart. She Was Not Pretty, She Was Not Clever, She Had No Friends, No Talents, Nor Even An Imagination To Make Her Think She Was Happy When She Was Really Miserable. As She Was Never Miserable, She Had No Need Of An Imagination.

The Terms 'male' And 'female' Must Be Understood As Representing No Mere Primitive Opposition Of Sex To Sex; But As Defining Two Worlds Of Differing Quality, In Either Of Which Men And Women May Jointly Move And Live.

Euripides Seems To Have Felt That The Dignified Perfection Of Sophocles Could Be Challenged Only By Novelty And Irresponsibility. The Religious Conditions Of The Dionysian Festival Kept Him Within Certain Bounds. But Within The Imposed Limits Euripides Was As Profane As He Dared To Be, Making Melodrama Of The Divine Realities Which His Predecessors Accepted Religiously, Using The Stage Merely As A Convenience For Popularizing His Own Eccentric Values.