Even when poetry has a meaning, as it usually has, it may be inadvisable to draw it out … and perfect understanding will sometimes almost extinguish pleasure.
Not curiosity, not vanity, not the consideration of expediency, not duty and conscientiousness, but an unquenchable, unhappy thirst that brooks…
It is high time for me to put an end to your sitting in this place, which you have dishonored…
...they liked to have books filled with things that they already knew, set out fair and square with no contradictions