Vladimir Nabokov


 “Suddenly for no earthly reason I felt immensely sorry for him and longed to say something real, something with wings and a heart, but the birds I wanted settled on my shoulders and head only later when I was alone and not in need of words.” 

― Vladimir Nabokov, The Real Life of Sebastian Knight

“There is an old American saying 'He who lives in a glass house should not try to kill two birds with one stone.” 
― Vladimir Nabokov, Pnin

D. H. Lawrence

 from Pansies THE WHITE HORSE The youth walks up to the white horse, to put its halter on and the horse looks at him in silence. They are s...