John Wain quotes:

How much of our literature, our political life, our friendships and love affairs, depend on being able to talk peacefully in a bar!

I have nothing to say. And I am saying it. That's poetry.

There, at the centre, are the artists who really form the consciousness of their time; they respond deeply, intuitively to what is happening, what has happened, and what will happen, and their response is expressed in metaphor, in image and in fable.