James Kenneth Stephens

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    Speech and prose are not the same thing. They have different wave-lengths, for speech moves at the speed of light, where prose moves at the speed of the alphabet, and must be consecutive and grammatical and word-perfect. Prose cannot gesticulate. Speech can sometimes do nothing more.
    —James Kenneth Stephens (1882–1950)

    This comes of James teaching me to think for myself, and never to hold back out of fear of what other people may think of me. It works beautifully as long as I think the same things as he does.
    George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950)

    And I cannot find the place
    Where his paw is the snare!
    Little One! Oh, Little One!
    I am searching everywhere!
    —James Kenneth Stephens (1882–1950)

    Crouching down where nothing stirs
    In the silence of the furze,
    Crouching down again to brood
    In the sunny solitude.
    —James Kenneth Stephens (1882–1950)