Book Quotes

“In his extreme youth Stoner had thought of love as an absolute state of being to which, if one were lucky, one might find access; in his maturity he had decided it was the heaven of a false religion, toward which one ought to gaze with an amused disbelief, a gently familiar contempt, and an embarrassed nostalgia. Now in his middle age he began to

"In other words, poetry, as Dante understood it by the time he composed the Divine Comedy, is a mode of life, mediated by our mother tongue, by living which we find in the ultimate analysis, that we are sharing here and now in the life that lies beyond space and time." - Geoffrey L. Bickersteth