Michael Mitchell > Michael's Quotes

“Folks think a lifetime is a thing stretched out over years. It ain't. It can happen quick as a match in a dark room.”
― Esi Edugyan, Half Blood Blues

“It's actually very difficult to make something both simple and good.”
― Paul Simon

“Properly, we should read for power. Man reading should be man intensely alive. The book should be a ball of light in one's hand.”
― Ezra Pound

“Some books are undeservedly forgotten; none are undeservedly remembered.”
― W.H. Auden, The Dyer's Hand and Other Essays