The worst enemy of human hope is not brute facts, but men of brains who will not face them. – 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
The worst enemy of human hope is not brute facts, but men of brains who will not face them. – 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
It is the ability to take a joke, not make one, that proves you have a sense of humor. – Max Eastman
Classic art was the art of necessity: modern romantic art bears the stamp of caprice and chance. – Max Eastman
The second, and I think this is the much more overt and I think it is the main cause, I have been increasingly demonstrating or trying to demonstrate that every possible stance a critic, a scholar, a teacher can take towards a poem is itself inevitably and necessarily poetic. – Harold Bloom