circuit quotes

Tell all theTruth but tell it slant Success in Circuit lies Too bright for our infirm Delight TheTruth's superb surprise.

- Emily Elizabeth Dickinson
c.1868  Complete Poems, no.1129 (first published1945).

Detach the writer from the milieu where he has experienced his greatest sense of belonging, and you have created a discontinuity within his personality, a short circuit in his identity. The result is his originality, his creativity comes to an end. He becomes the one-book novelist or the one-trilogy writer.

- Henry Roth
  'The Eternal Plebeian and Other Matters', in Shifting Landscape.