Anybody in the next centuries wanting to know what it was like to be a poet in the middle of the 20th century should read Kaddish.
“All writers of fiction will at some point find themselves abandoning a piece of work - or find themselves putting it aside, as we gently say.”
“Nine-tenths of tactics are certain, and taught in books: but the irrational tenth is like the kingfisher flashing across the pool, and that is the test of generals.”