It Isn’t Happiness I Am

Happy Nations Have No History. History Is The Study Of Mankind's Misfortune.

The Poet Is Never Inspired, Because He Is The Master Of That Which Appears To Others As Inspiration. He Does Not Wait For Inspiration To Fall Out Of The Heavens Like Roasted Ortolans. He Knows How To Hunt...he Is Never Inspired Because He Is Unceasingly Inspired, Because The Powers Of Poetry Are Always At His Disposition, Subjected To His Will, Submissive To His Own Activity.

Learning To Learn Is To Know How To Navigate In A Forest Of Facts, Ideas And Theories, A Proliferation Of Constantly Changing Items Of Knowledge. Learning To Learn Is To Know What To Ignore But At The Same Time Not Rejecting Innovation And Research.

Fiction Has Consisted Either Of Placing Imaginary Characters In A True Story, Which Is The Iliad, Or Of Presenting The Story Of An Individual As Having A General Historical Value, Which Is The Odyssey.

It Doesn't Seem To Me That Anyone Has Discovered Much That's New Since The Iliad Or The Odyssey.