The cliche is dead poetry. – Gerald Brenan
In a happy marriage it is the wife who provides the climate, the husband the landscape. – Gerald Brenan
The cliche is dead poetry. – Gerald Brenan
In a happy marriage it is the wife who provides the climate, the husband the landscape. – Gerald Brenan
We are closer to the ants than to butterflies. Very few people can endure much leisure. – Gerald Brenan
Everyone is a bore to someone. That is unimportant. The things to avoid is being a bore to oneself. – Gerald Brenan
He presents me with what is always an acceptable gift who brings me news of a great thought before unknown. He enriches me without impoverishing himself. The judicious quoter, too, helps on what is much needed in the world, a freer circulation of good thoughts, pure feelings, and pleasant fancies. – Christian Nestell Bovee, “Quoters and Quoting,” Institutions and Summaries of Th