To A Poet The Mere Making Of

The New "ambiguity" Means, In A Way Adjudged Favorable To Literary, Poetic, Intellectually And Psychologically Well-devised And Praiseworthily Executed Linguistic Performance, Uncertainty Of Meaning, Or Difficulty For The Interpreter In Identifying Just What The Meaning In Question Is: It Means The Old Meanings Of Ambiguity With A Difference. It Means Uncertainty Of Meaning (of A Word Or Combination Of Words) Purposefully Incorporated In A Literary Composition For The Attainment Of The Utmost Possible Variety Of Meaning-play Compressible Within The Verbal Limits Of The Composition.

Politics Have Always Covered Two Distinct Kinds Of Problems: Problems Of Administrative Routine, And Those That May Be Called 'questions Of The Moment.' A Question Of The Moment Is, Indeed, A Substitute For Some Notion, Such As The Idea Of God, Or Hereditary Monarchy, Or National Glory, That Has Hitherto Acted As A Symbol Of Human Co-ordination. It Provides No New Positive Certainty To Replace The Discredited Certainty, But Is What The Name Implies: The Raising Of A Question Which The Old Certainty No Longer Answers.

Conversation Succeeds Conversation, Until There's Nothing Left To Talk About Except Truth, The Perennial Monologue, And No Talker To Dispute It But Itself.

What Second Love Could She [olympias] Make Out Of Her Ruined First Love? The Second Love That Most Women Make Out Of Their First Love For Husbands Grows From A Mutual And Tacit Sadness In Both Husband And Wife That He Is Only In Rare Moments The Man Both Would Like Him To Be.

Because Most People Are Not Sufficiently Employed In Themselves, They Run About Loose, Hungering For Employment, And Satisfy Themselves In Various Supererogatory Occupations. The Easiest Of These Occupations, Which Have All To Do With Making Things Already Made, Is The Making Of People: It Is Called The Art Of Friendship.