“When superstition is allowed to perform the task of old age in dulling the human temperament, we can say goodbye to all excellence in poetry, in painting, and in music.”
— Denis Diderot
Author: Denis Diderot
Category: age
Tags: age, Denis Diderot
“All stories interest me, and some haunt me until I end up writing them. Certain themes keep coming up: justice, loyalty, violence, death, political and social issues, freedom.”
“There is little premium in poetry in a world that thinks of Pound and Whitman as a weight and a sampler, not an Ezra, a Walt, a thing of beauty, a joy forever.”
— Anna Quindlen
Author: Anna Quindlen
Category: poetry
Tags: poetry, Anna Quindlen