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“If the crop of any one year was all, a man would have to cut his throat every time it hailed.”

Work

This book compiles a wide range of poems, showcasing the author's poetic style and thematic concerns across various works. more

Author

Wendell Berry

Wendell Berry, an American novelist born on August 5, 1934, is renowned for his profound descriptions of rural life and his critical views on modern industrial civilization. more

“I am more famed in Heaven for my works than I could well conceive. In my brain are studies & chambers filled with books & pictures of old, which I wrote and painted in ages of Eternity before my mortal life; and whose works are the delight & study of Archangels. Why, then, should I be anxious about the riches or fame of mortality?”

Should Wells Book Age Heaven Brain Study Fame Eternity Filled Delight Riches Mortals Mortality Anxious Should I Chamber Archangel

Author:William Blake

“I don't understand this whole thing about computers and the superhighway. Who wants to be in touch with all of those people?”

People Want Whole Computer

Book:Conversations with Ray Bradbury

Source: Conversations with Ray Bradbury

“We traveled for science: those three small embryos from Cape Crozier, that weight of fossils from Barkley Island, and that mass of material less spectacular but gathered just as carefully hour by hour, in wind and drift, darkness and cold, was striven for in order that the world may have a little more knowledge, that it may build on what it knows instead of on what it thinks.”

Thinking Knows World May Littles Order Three Hours Darkness Wind Materials Cold Mass Weight Islands Traveled Fossils Spectacular Capes Embryos More Knowledge

Author:Apsley Cherry-Garrard

“Finally, good sense is the body of poetic genius, fancy its drapery, motion its life, and imagination the soul that is everywhere and in each; and forms all into one graceful and intelligent whole.”

Soul Whole Body Form Imagination Genius Intelligent Fancy Poetic Good Sense

Book:The Complete Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge: Poetry, Plays, Literary Essays, Lectures, Autobiography and Letters (Classic Illustrated Edition): The Entire Opus of the English poet, literary critic and philosopher, including The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, Kubla Khan, Christabel, Lyrical Ballads, Conversation Poems and Biographia Literaria

Source: The Complete Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge: Poetry, Plays, Literary Essays, Lectures, Autobiography and Letters (Classic Illustrated Edition): The Entire Opus of the English poet, literary critic and philosopher, including The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, Kubla Khan, Christabel, Lyrical Ballads, Conversation Poems and Biographia Literaria

“Too much of anything is the beginning of a mess.”

Too Much Mess

Book:365 Shortcuts to Home Decorating

Source: 365 Shortcuts to Home Decorating

“Tennyson and Browning are poets, and they think; but they do not feel their thought as immediately as the odour of a rose. A thought to Donne was an experience; it modified his sensibility.”

Thinking Feels Poet Rose Sensibility Donne Tennyson

Book:Selected essays

Source: Selected essays

“In Europe, being an artist is a form of behavior. In America, it's an excuse for a form of behavior.”

America Form Artist Behavior Europe Excuse Being An Artist

Book:Novels, 1926-1929

Source: Novels, 1926-1929