Minor Demon

Famous quotes containing the words minor and/or demon:

    “For a country to have a great writer ... is like having another government. That’s why no régime has ever loved great writers, only minor ones.”
    —Alexander Solzhenitsyn (b. 1918)

    “Some on commission, some for the love of learning, Some because they have nothing better to do Or because they hope these walls of books will deaden The drumming of the demon in their ears.”
    —Louis MacNeice (1907–1963)