A poet is a man who puts up a ladder to a star and climbs it while playing a violin. – Edmond de Goncourt Category: Poetry
I could no more define poetry than a terrier can define a rat. – Alfred Edward Housman Category: Poetry
Pain is filtered in a poem so that it becomes finally, in the end, pleasure. – Mark Strand Category: Poetry
All good criticism should be judged the way art is. You shouldnt read it the way you read history or science. – Leslie Fiedler Category: Art
We should so provide for old age that it may have no urgent wants of this world to absorb it from meditation on the next. It is awful to see the lean hands of dotage making a coffer of the grave. – Pearl S. Buck Category: Age
For cowards the road of desertion should be left open; they will carry over to the enemy nothing, but their fears. – Christian Nevell Bovee Category: Cowardice/Weakness
