Possession

by A.S. Byatt

For the difference between poets and novelists is this—that the former write for the life of the language—and the latter write for the betterment of the world.

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great word.... one of the many perks of reading highly literate authors...

women’s minds, more intuitive and purer and less beset with torsions

home—he whose paramount preoccupation—was just the Lares