Everything is complicated if that were not so, life and poetry and everything else would be a bore. – Wallace Stevens Category: Poetry
While Ive had a great distaste for whats usually called song in modern poetry or for whats usually called music, I really dont think of speech as so far from song. – David Antin Category: Poetry
All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope. – Winston Churchill Category: Freedom
The capacity of human beings to bore one another seems to be vastly greater than that of any other animal. – H.L. Mencken Category: Bores