top of page
.png){kind=small}
"Evidently the arts, all the visual arts, are becoming more democratic in the worst sense of the word."
Standard
Customized
More
"I carried out my orders until arrested. I had no sense that I was spying, and I ask that this be taken into account in deciding my verdict."
Author Name
Personal Development
"To read a poem is to hear it with our eyes; to hear it is to see it with our ears."
Author Name
Personal Development
"Sense isn't democratic. An opinion uttered by 99 people does not necessarily make more sense than an opposing opinion that was uttered by one person."
Author Name
Personal Development
"Sense isn't democratic. A senseless opinion that's advocated by 'the majority' is still senseless."
Author Name
Personal Development
"It's valid that the Strokes and the Pleased have been influenced by some of the same bands. But it's invalid in the sense that we listen to the Strokes and try to sounds like them. I think that they are a good band."
Author Name
Personal Development
"It's crazy how you can get yourself in a mess sometimes and not even be able to think about it with any sense and yet not be able to think about anything else."
Author Name
Personal Development
"Muscles are in a most intimate and peculiar sense the organs of the will."
Author Name
Personal Development
"Negotiating in the classic diplomatic sense assumes parties more anxious to agree than to disagree."
Author Name
Personal Development
"A proverb is good sense brought to a point."
Author Name
Personal Development
"I think I had an advantage in the sense that I wasn't raised religiously."
Author Name
Personal Development
More
"This proves that great lyric poetry can die, be reborn, die again, but will always remain one of the most outstanding creations of the human soul."
Poetry
"Art is the production of objects for consumption, to be used and discarded while waiting for a new world in which man will have succeeded in freeing himself of everything, even of his own consciousness."
Art
"Against the dark background of this contemporary civilization of well-being, even the arts tend to mingle, to lose their identity."
Civilization
"In reality art is always for everyone and for no one."
Art
"Mass communication, radio, and especially television, have attempted, not without success, to annihilate every possibility of solitude and reflection."
Success
"There is also poetry written to be shouted in a square in front of an enthusiastic crowd. This occurs especially in countries where authoritarian regimes are in power."
Poetry
"Narrative art, the novel, from Murasaki to Proust, has produced great works of poetry."
Poetry
"Man cannot produce a single work without the assistance of the slow, assiduous, corrosive worm of thought."
Work
"However, poetry does not live solely in books or in school anthologies."
Poetry
"There is poetry even in prose, in all the great prose which is not merely utilitarian or didactic: there exist poets who write in prose or at least in more or less apparent prose; millions of poets write verses which have no connection with poetry."
Poetry
bottom of page