“No people are more conceited than those who depict their own feelings, especially if they happen to have a little prose at their command for the occasion.” PeopleIfsLittlesFeelingsHappensCommandOccasionsProseConceited Author:Georg C. Lichtenberg
“What I desire of a poem is a clear understanding of motive, and a just evaluation of feeling A poem in the first place should offer us a new perception..bringing into being a new experience Verse is more valuable than prose for its rhythms are faster and more highly organised and lead to greater compexity.” ShouldFirstsFeelingsDesireUnderstandingClearGreaterOffersPerceptionValuableRhythmFasterMotiveProseVersesNew ExperiencesEvaluationOrganised Author:Yvor Winters
“The lucidity of the battle narratives, the vigor of the prose, the strong feeling for the men from generals to privates who did the fighting, are all controlled by a constant sense of how it happened and what it was all about. Foote has the novelist's feeling for character and situation, without losing the historian's scrupulous regard for recorded fact. The Civil War is likely to stand unequalled.” MenWarCharacterFactsFeelingsFightingStrongSituationHappenedHe ManBattleLosingRegardConstantNarrativeNovelistsCivil WarProseControlledHistorianVigorStrong FeelingLucidity Author:Walter Millis
“Sometimes one has the feeling of an almost supernatural character to the shifts and changes in our national mood. They appear beyond the prose of cause and effect.” SometimesCharacterFeelingsCausesEffectsMoodProseCause And Effect Book:A View of My Own: Essays on Literature and Society Source: A View of My Own: Essays on Literature and Society