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Words That Must Somehow Be Said: Selected Essays, 1927-1984 QUOTES

Words That Must Somehow Be Said: Selected Essays, 1927-1984 QUOTES

1 " Writing of a chance early meeting with Dylan Thomas in a London bar, Kay Boyle writes (1955, in the era of McCarthyism, 1947-1956):

Perhaps because he [Dylan Thomas was so often out of place among men, we take him now as symbol. Perhaps because we who write in America are in great difficulties now, we cherish Dylan Thomas as if he were our own ego, our own wild soul freed of the flesh. An American critic, writing of the American literary scene, points out that thinking Americans, in this period of our nation's development, are deeply troubled because "the demands for national security and for individual freedom" are in conflict. "

― Kay Boyle , Words That Must Somehow Be Said: Selected Essays, 1927-1984

2 " Words are shallow troughs for the deep water of the mind and it is only the fierce, the living, the simple, the clear, the angry mind which can overflow the troughs and go out over the mud, and over the grass, bearing the light of the sun on it like an angry shield. "

― Kay Boyle , Words That Must Somehow Be Said: Selected Essays, 1927-1984

3 " There is no way for even the most honest among us to look into memory's dreamy, evasive eyes and know she can be persuaded not to lie, not to betray. "

― Kay Boyle , Words That Must Somehow Be Said: Selected Essays, 1927-1984

4 " It takes courage to say things differently: Caution and cowardice dictate the use of the cliché. "

― Kay Boyle , Words That Must Somehow Be Said: Selected Essays, 1927-1984