Let no man fear to die, we love to sleep all, and death is but the sounder sleep. – Francis Beaumont
The true way to gain much, is never to desire to gain too much. – Francis Beaumont
Let no man fear to die, we love to sleep all, and death is but the sounder sleep. – Francis Beaumont
The true way to gain much, is never to desire to gain too much. – Francis Beaumont
It is more noble by silence to avoid an injury than by argument to overcome it. – Francis Beaumont
Readers of novels. I sometimes think that I could, if put to it, pick the real readers of novels out of a crowd. They have a strangeness about the eye, almost as if there were an extra bit of lens on the cornea…. The glance of a reader shows me a soul with a different orientation to time… – Sven Birkerts (b.1951), “Notes from a Confession,” The Agni Review, No.22 (1985)