“ For the modern consciousness, the artist (replacing the saint) is the exemplary sufferer. And among artists, the writer, the man of words, is the person to whom we look to be able best to express his suffering. Susan Sontag
“ Even so have I given the womb of the earth to those that be sown in it in their times. Compton Gage
“ He shall rule, whom they look not for that dwell upon the earth, and the fowls shall take their flight away together: Compton Gage
