Lives of great men oft remind us as we o'er their pages turn, That we too may leave behind us - Letters that we ought to burn.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Lives of great men all remind us, we can make our lives sublime, and, departing, leave behind us, footprints on the sands of time.
For a man who no longer has a homeland, writing becomes a place to live.
We cannot tear out a single page of our life, but we can throw the whole book in the fire.
Thus, the poet's word is beginning to strike forcefully upon the hearts of all men, while absolute men of letters think that they alone live in the real world.
Life passes into pages if it passes into anything.
It is one of the paradoxes of American literature that our writers are forever looking back with love and nostalgia at lives they couldn't wait to leave.
As I have encountered difficult moments in my own life, I have been privileged to learn from the great men I have come to know as a writer.
We must wash literature off ourselves. We want to be men above all, to be human.
I think it's more important to write something that brings men back to reading than it is to write for people who already read. There's a reason men don't read, and it's because books don't serve men. It's time we produce books that serve men.
Books are not men and yet they stay alive.
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