"Most of the writers with whom I was most impressed were the French and Russian writers of another period. The one Ame…"

"Art is the stored honey of the human soul, gathered on wings of misery and travail."

"Every reader of the Dreiser novels must cherish astounding specimens—of awkward, platitudinous marginalia, of whole s…"

"Meridel Le Sueur at fifteen had an introduction to one interpretation of "free love" herself, when attending a salon …"

"Dreiser wanted to write the next great American novel, and his desperation pervades https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sis…"

"Writers in the twenties reacted not only to the shock of the First World War but to the values held dear in the ninet…"

"Oh, the moon is fair tonight along the Wabash, From the fields there comes the breath of new-mown hay; Through the sy…"

"I acknowledge the Furies. I believe in them. I have heard the disastrous beating of their wings."

"If I were personally to define religion, I would say that it is a bandage that man has invented to protect a soul mad…"

"Shakespeare, I come!"