top of page
.png){kind=small}
More
"The modern artist must live by craft and violence. His gods are violent gods. Those artists, so called, whose work does not show this strife, are uninteresting."
Work
"Music begins to atrophy when it departs too far from the dance... poetry begins to atrophy when it gets too far from music."
Music
"I could I trust starve like a gentleman. It's listed as part of the poetic training, you know."
Trust
"Any general statement is like a check drawn on a bank. Its value depends on what is there to meet it."
Values
"If the individual, or heretic, gets hold of some essential truth, or sees some error in the system being practiced, he commits so many marginal errors himself that he is worn out before he can establish his point."
Truth
"The jargon of sculptors is beyond me. I do not know precisely why I admire a green granite female, apparently pregnant monster with one eye going around a square corner."
Art
"Wars are made to make debt."
Debt
"A civilized man is one who will give a serious answer to a serious question. Civilization itself is a certain sane balance of values."
Civilization
"Religion, oh, just another of those numerous failures resulting from an attempt to popularize art."
Art
"Real education must ultimately be limited to men who insist on knowing, the rest is mere sheep-herding."
Education
More
"Ghana, a land full of Gold! Africa, a land full of resources!"
Author Name
Personal Development
"The silver Thames takes some part of this county in its journey to Oxford."
Author Name
Personal Development
"When I was in the fourth grade, I became intensely interested in geography and I learned it well."
Author Name
Personal Development
"The States which form the northern border of the United States westward from the Great Lakes to the Pacific coast include an area several times larger than France and could contain ten Englands and still have room to spare."
Author Name
Personal Development
"A journey of four hundred and thirty miles can be made in any part of the United States, but in Turkey it takes as many days."
Author Name
Personal Development
"Somebody said that I am the last American living the tragedy of Europe."
Author Name
Personal Development
"There isn't a parallel of latitude but thinks it would have been the equator if it had had its rights."
Author Name
Personal Development
"How can the mind take hold of such a country? Generations of invaders have tried, but they remain in exile. The important towns they build are only retreats, their quarrels the malaise of men who cannot find their way home. India knows of their trouble. She knows of the whole world's trouble, to its uttermost depth. She calls "Come" through her hundred mouths, through objects ridiculous and august. But come to what? She has never defined. She is not a promise, only an appeal."
Author Name
Personal Development
"We have 45,000 square miles of geography in Ohio."
Author Name
Personal Development
"Spring has many American faces. There are cities where it will come and go in a day and counties where it hangs around and never quite gets there. Summer is drawn blinds in Louisiana, long winds in Wyoming, shade of elms and maples in New England."
Author Name
Personal Development
bottom of page