You may feel that Peter Martins' 'Beauty' is too compressed and inexpressive, but it's loyal to the text.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
What the beautiful-writing writers are most attached to is almost always superfluous.
When I enter that higher-order space that's required to write, I'm a better human. For whatever my writing is, wherever it's ranked, it definitely is the one place that I get to be beautiful.
Our job as writers, as far as I can tell, is to attempt to express what seems inexpressible.
Beauty is desired in order that it may be befouled; not for its own sake, but for the joy brought by the certainty of profaning it.
The more melancholy side of my literary personality is much in tune with BS Johnson's.
I still think it's really quite wonderful when I read a sentence of mine and it has that quality of lastingness.
Beauty has a lot to do with character.
Beauty is unbearable, drives us to despair, offering us for a minute the glimpse of an eternity that we should like to stretch out over the whole of time.
I never knew a writer yet who took the smallest pains with his style and was at the same time readable.
I'm very attracted to poetry for all the reasons someone likes poetry. The notion of compression seems to fit my personality.