Poetry And Slave Trading Cannot Be Bedfellows.

Wisdom Is Like A Goatskin Bag; Every Man Carries His Own.

To The Question Of Writing At All We Have Sometimes Been Counselled To Forget It, Or Rather The Writing Of Books. What Is Required, We Are Told, Is Plays And Films. Books Are Out Of Date! The Book Is Dead, Long Live Television! One Question Which Is Not Even Raised Let Alone Considered Is: Who Will Write The Drama And Film Scripts When The Generation That Can Read And Write Has Been Used Up?

When A Tradition Gathers Enough Strength To Go On For Centuries, You Don't Just Turn It Off One Day.

The Only Thing We Have Learnt From Experience Is That We Learn Nothing From Experience.

A Toad Does Not Run In The Daytime For Nothing