“Style and Structure are the essence of a book; great ideas are hogwash.”

“A great book begins with an idea; a great life, with a determination”

“The unity of style not only of the Christian Middle Ages but of the Renaissance expresses in each case the different structure of social power, and not the obscure experience of the oppressed in which the general was enclosed. The great artists were never those who embodied a wholly flawless and perfect style, but those who used style as a way of hardening themselves against the chaotic expression of suffering, as a negative truth. The style of their works gave what was expressed that force without which life goes unheard”

“Few things contain and impact the immediacy of cultural impress so evocatively as books, and not only through their ideas. A book is an artifact, and every age establishes upon the basic functional structure its own particular stamp.”

“An Enforcer’s style is to destroy all magicians in sight and lap up their essence like a starved cur.”

“A true poet is one who can appreciate the disciplines and structures of any style of poetry.David J Delaney ©”