“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
“Learning has been as great a Loser by being shut up in Colleges and Cells, and secluded from the World and good Company. By that Means, every Thing of what we call Belles Lettres became totally barbarous, being cultivated by Men without any Taste of Life or Manners, and without that Liberty and Facility of Thought and Expression, which can only be acquir'd by Conversation.” MenWorldMeanHas BeensCompanyLibertyLearningCollegeExpressionTasteConversationCellsMannersLoserShut UpFacilityGood CompanySecludedTaste Of Life Book:Essays Moral, Political, and Literary Source: Essays Moral, Political, and Literary
“The taste which men have for liberty and that which they feel for equality are, in fact, two different things...among democratic nations they are two unequal things.” MenFeelsTwoDifferentFactsNationsLibertyTasteDemocraticDifferent ThingsTwo Different Things Author:Alexis de Tocqueville