Better shun the bait, than struggle in the snare.
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At that instant he saw, in one blaze of light, an image of unutterable conviction, the reason why the artist works and lives and has his being--the reward he seeks--the only reward he really cares about, without which there is nothing. It is to snare the spirits of mankind in nets of magic, to make his life prevail through his creation, to wreak the vision of his life, the rude and painful substance of his own experience, into the congruence of blazing and enchanted images that are themselves the core of life, the essential pattern whence all other things proceed, the kernel of eternity.
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Literature is a toil and a snare, a curse that bites deep.
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Know from this the world's a snare, How that greatness is but care,...
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Old-fashioned ways which no longer apply to changed conditions are a snare in which the feet of women have always become readily entangled.
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Scornful men bring a city into a snare, but wise men turn away wrath. Proverbs 29:8
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A vow is a snare for sin.
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