Clergyman's

“An age which is incapable of poetry is incapable of any kind of literature except the cleverness of a decadence.”
– Raymond Chandler

“I guess I wanted to leave America for awhile. It wasn’t that I wanted to become an expatriate, or just never come back, I needed some breathing room. I’d already been translating French poetry, I’d been to Paris once before and liked it very much, and so I just went.”
– Paul Auster

“With several different kinds of poetry to choose from, a man would decide that he would like best to be an epic poet, and he would set out, in conscious determination, on an epic poem.”
– Lascelles Abercrombie