In an age of plastic surgery and synthetic fabrics, poets are the last of the realists.
Randall Jarrell – Pictures from an Institution
Poets as Realists
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In an age of plastic surgery and synthetic fabrics, poets are the last of the realists.
Randall Jarrell – Pictures from an Institution
He who gives up action for wisdom becomes all thought and no work.
Randall Jarrell – Pictures from an Institution
The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there.
Randall Jarrell – Pictures from an Institution
Committee—a group of men who individually can do nothing but as a group decide that nothing can be done.
Randall Jarrell – Pictures from an Institution
The novel is a prose narrative of some length that has something wrong with it.
Randall Jarrell – Pictures from an Institution
Teaching is reminding others that they know just as well as you. You are all learners, doers, and teachers.
Randall Jarrell – Pictures from an Institution
Money can’t buy you happiness but it does bring you a more pleasant form of misery.
Spike Milligan – Puckoon
All I ask is the chance to prove that money can’t make me happy.
Spike Milligan – Puckoon
The only difference between a madman and myself is that I am not mad!
Spike Milligan – Puckoon
A sure cure for seasickness is to sit under a tree.
Spike Milligan – Puckoon