“What on earth is modern exegesis up to? Oh, little lazy one! Some red wine and up! Off you go, brandishing your fork, stripped of Ophelia's useless ornaments, fire in your large nostrils, out to rake the muck of metaphors.” LittlesEarthFireModernRedWineMetaphorUselessLazyForksOrnamentsRed WineOpheliaRakesExegesis Author:Louis Aragon
“Culture is activity of thought, and receptiveness to beauty and humane feeling. Scraps of information have nothing to do with it. A merely well informed man is the most useless bore on God's earth.” MenWellsFeelingsEarthCultureInformationActivityUselessBoresHumaneScrap Book:Aims of Education Source: Aims of Education
“Flowers belong to Fairyland: the flowers and the birds and the butterflies are all that the world has kept of its golden age--the only perfectly beautiful things on earth--joyous, innocent, half divine--useless, say they who are wiser than God.” WorldAgeEarthBeautifulHalfDivineFlowerBirdInnocentGoldenUselessButterflyBeautiful ThingsWiserJoyousGolden Age Book:Bébée, or Two Little Wooden Shoes Source: Bébée, or Two Little Wooden Shoes