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“When I talk of hearing a poet's voice speaking, I always think of it as in the presence of the man.”

Thinking Men Literature Voice He Man Poet Hearing

Author:Norman MacCaig

“How could poetry and literature have arisen from something as plebian as the cuneiform equivalent of grocery-store bar codes? I prefer the version in which Prometheus brought writing to man from the gods. But then I remind myself that...we should not be too fastidious about where great ideas come from. Ultimately, they all come from a wrinkled organ that at its healthiest has the color and consistency of toothpaste, and in the end only withers and dies.”

Men Should Writing Ideas Ends Dies Literature Color Stores Bars Versions Code Organs Consistency Groceries Great Idea Grocery Stores Toothpaste Prometheus Fastidious Cuneiform

Author:Alice Weaver Flaherty

“Of all the ways of defining man, the worst is the one which makes him out to be a rational animal.”

Men Way Literature Animal Worst Rational Defining

Author:Anatole France

“One thing above all gives charm to men's thoughts, and this is unrest. A mind that is not uneasy irritates and bores me.”

Men Giving Mind Literature One Thing Charm Bores Uneasy Irritated Unrest

Author:Anatole France

“War will disappear only when men shall take no part whatever in violence and shall be ready to suffer every persecution that their abstention will bring them. It is the only way to abolish war.”

Men Way War Suffering Literature Violence Ready Disappear Persecution Abolish Abstention

Author:Anatole France

“I think it's a very old and deep-seated double standard that holds that when a man writes about family and feelings, it's literature with a capital L, but when a woman considers the same topics, it's romance, or a beach book - in short, it's something unworthy of a serious critic's attention.”

Thinking Men Writing Book Feelings Romance Literature Attention Serious Standards Critics Beach Topics Unworthy About Family Double Standard

Author:Jennifer Weiner

“It takes a great man to give sound advice tactfully, but a greater to accept it graciously.”

Men Giving Literature Sound Accepting Greater Advice Great Men Giving Advice Sound Advice

Author:J. C. Macaulay

“The historical sense compels a man to write not merely with his own generation in his bones, but with a feeling that the whole of literature from Homer and within it the whole of the literature of his own country has a simultaneous existence and composes a simultaneous order.”

Men Writing Country Whole Feelings Order Literature Existence Generations Tradition Historical Bones Simultaneous Individual Talent

Book:The Sacred Wood and Major Early Essays

Source: The Sacred Wood and Major Early Essays

“All the world's a stage, and all the men and women mearly players.”

“Our leading men are not of much account and never have been, but the average of the people is immense, beyond all history. Sometimes I think in all departments, literature and art included, that will be the way our superiority will exhibit itself. We will not have great individuals or great leaders, but a great average bulk, unprecedentedly great.”

People Thinking Men Way Has Beens Art Sometimes Literature Individual Leader Mass Accounts Average Department Immense Superiority Great Leader Exhibits Literature And Art

Book:Prose Works 1892: Speciman Days

Source: Prose Works 1892: Speciman Days

“It has come to be practically a sort of rule in literature that a man, having once shown himself capable of original writing, is entitled thenceforth to steal from the writings of others at discretion.”

Men Writing Literature Capable Originals Stealing Entitled Discretion Plagiarism

Book:Essays and Lectures

Source: Essays and Lectures