“When you begin to read a poem you are entering a foreign country whose laws and language and life are a kind of translation of your own; but to accept it because its stews taste exactly like your old mother's hash, or to reject it because the owl-headed goddess of wisdom in its temple is fatter than the Statue of Liberty, is an equal mark of that want of imagination, that inaccessibility to experience, of which each of us who dies a natural death will die.” WantKindCountryLawMotherDiesLanguageImaginationNaturalLibertyAcceptingLike YouTasteEqualMarkTemplesRejectsGoddessEnteringStatuesTranslationsOwlForeign CountriesStewStatue Of LibertyNatural DeathHash Author:Randall Jarrell
“Fish live in water. Men die in it.Nature is diverse, and not all tastes are the same.” MenDiesWaterTasteFishesToleranceDiverse Author:Zhuangzi
“Horror grows impatient, rhetorically, with the Stoic fatalism of Ecclesiastes. That we are all going to die, that death mocks and cancels every one of our acts and attainments and every moment of our life histories, this knowledge is to storytelling what rust is to oxidation; the writer of horror holds with those who favor fire. The horror writer is not content to report on death as the universal system of human weather; he or she chases tornadoes. Horror is Stoicism with a taste for spectacle.” HumansMomentsDiesGrowsFireOur LivesTasteHorrorUniversalFavorsStorytellingWeatherReportsStoicismImpatientAttainmentRustStoicTornadoesFatalismEcclesiastes Author:Michael Chabon
“Though beauty is, with the most apt similitude, I had almost said with the most literal truth, called a flower that fades and dies almost in the very moment of its maturity; yet there is, methinks, a kind of beauty which lives even to old age; a beauty that is not in the features, but, if I may be allowed the expression, shines through them. As it is not merely corporeal it is not the object of mere sense, nor is it to be discovered but by persons of true taste and refined sentiment.” IfsKindMayPersonsSaidMomentsAgeDiesBeautyObjectsExpressionFlowerTasteShiningMereOld AgeFeaturesMaturitySentimentsFadesLiteralRefined Author:Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke