"I admire Ginsberg as a poet, despite the fact that he seems not to know when he is being good and when he is bad. But he will last, or at least those poems will last."

Being, Fact, Poems, Will

26

Create Your Own Wallpaper

Standard

Customized

"I admire Ginsberg as a poet, despite the fact that he seems not to know when he is being good and when he is bad. But he will last, or at least those poems will last."

Exlpore more Being quotes

"The pages are still blank, but there is a miraculous feeling of the words being there, written in invisible ink and clamoring to become visible."

Vladimir Nabokov, American Novelist

Being, Feeling, Words

"You can wipe out your opponents. But if you do it unjustly you become eligible for being wiped out yourself."

Ernest Hemingway, American Novelist

Being, Opponents

"There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy. By being happy we sow anonymous benefits upon the world."

Robert Louis Stevenson, Scottish Writer

Being, Benefits, Duty, World

"Being a blockhead is sometimes the best security against being cheated by a man of wit."

Francois de La Rochefoucauld, French Writer

Being, Man, Security, Wit

"It is a common enough case, that of a man being suddenly captivated by a woman nearly the opposite of his ideal."

George Eliot, British Author

Being, Man, Woman

"And they write innumerable books; being too vain and distracted for silence: seeking every one after his own elevation, and dodging his emptiness."

T. S. Eliot, American Poet

Being, Books

"There is more pleasure in loving than in being beloved."

Thomas Fuller, English Clergyman

Being, Pleasure

"The secret of being a bore... is to tell everything."

Voltaire, French Writer

Being,

"No man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow himself through the world, giving and receiving offence."

Thomas Carlyle, Scottish Philosopher

Being, Giving, Man, World

"Being brilliant is no great feat if you respect nothing."

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, German Poet

Being, Nothing, Respect

Explore more quotes by Leslie Fiedler

"I admire Ginsberg as a poet, despite the fact that he seems not to know when he is being good and when he is bad. But he will last, or at least those poems will last."

Being, Fact, Poems, Will

"Faulkner turned out to be a great teacher. When a student asked a question ineptly, he answered the question with what the student had really wanted to know."

Question,

"The reason Saul Bellow doesn't talk to me anymore is because he knows his new novels are not worth reading."

Reading, Reason, Talk, Worth

"I love it now that a large minority of people who are handicapped prefer to call themselves crippled. This is all part of the game, like queer theory."

Love, People, Minority, Now

"Hemingway seems to be in a funny position. People nowadays can't identify with him closely as a member of their own generation, and he isn't yet historical."

Fun, Funny, People

"There are things in American culture that want to wipe the class distinction. Blue jeans. Ready-made clothes. Coca-Cola."

Cultural, Class, Clothes, Culture

"When all of us are forgotten, people will still be remembering Stephen King."

People, Will

"Foucault was the one person I met in France that I could talk to. He was a mensch. You know whether you agree with him or not because you know what he is saying."

Philosophy, France, Saying, Talk

"Writers always know whether you like them or not."

Media, Writers

"Gertrude Stein really thought of Hemingway as frail. He almost married Stein."

Thought,