Emotion is the surest arbiter of a poetic choice, and it is the priest of all supreme unions in the mind. – Max Eastman
There is something self-defeating in the too-conscious pursuit of pleasure. – Max Eastman

Emotion is the surest arbiter of a poetic choice, and it is the priest of all supreme unions in the mind. – Max Eastman
There is something self-defeating in the too-conscious pursuit of pleasure. – Max Eastman
The worst enemy of human hope is not brute facts, but men of brains who will not face them. – Max Eastman
I really would like to stop working forever—never work again, never do anything like the kind of work I’m doing now—and do nothing but write poetry and have leisure to spend the day outdoors and go to museums and see friends…. Just a literary and quiet city-hermit existence. – Allen Ginsberg