"I have lived among the dead, and I have learned much from them."

"Talk to me of originality and, I will turn on you with rage. I am a crowd, I am a lonely man, I am nothing. Ancient salt is best packing."

"I shall write for my own people, whether in love or hate of them matters little, probably I shall not know which it is."

"I have spent my life in trying to find a style for myself, and I am still trying."

"Civilisation is hooped together, brought. Under a rule, under the semblance of peace. By manifold illusion, but Man's life is thought, And he, despite his terror, cannot cease, Ravening through centur…"