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Category Archive: 1901

Nazim Hikmet Quote: “Living is no laughing matter: you…”

Living is no laughing matter: you must live with great seriousness like a squirrel for example – I mean without looking for something beyond and above living, I mean living must be your whole occupation.

October 13, 2021 1901, Nazim Hikmet, November 20, Quotes by Poets, Turkish

Laura Riding Quote: “There can be no literary equivalent…”

There can be no literary equivalent to truth.

August 26, 2021 1901, American, January 16, Laura Riding, Quotes by Poets

Hirohito Quote: “That most unfortunate war, which I…”

That most unfortunate war, which I deeply deplore.

June 3, 2021 1901, April 29, Hirohito, Japanese, Quotes by Leaders

Laura Riding Quote: “Because most people are not sufficiently…”

Because most people are not sufficiently employed in themselves, they run about loose, hungering for employment, and satisfy themselves in various supererogatory occupations. The easiest of these occupations, which have all to do with making things already made, is the making of people: it is called the art of friendship.

April 30, 2021 1901, American, January 16, Laura Riding, Quotes by Poets

Laura Riding Quote: “I feel an intense intimacy with…”

I feel an intense intimacy with those who have this loathing interest in me. Further than this, I know what they mean, I sympathize with them, I understand them. There should be a name (as poetic as love) for this relationship between loather and loathed; it is of the closest and more full of passion than incest.

March 12, 2021 1901, American, January 16, Laura Riding, Quotes by Poets

Laura Riding Quote: “Art indeed is a term referring…”

Art indeed is a term referring to the social source and to the social utility of creative acts.

November 29, 2020 1901, American, January 16, Laura Riding, Quotes by Poets

Manly Hall Quote: “It is only a step from…”

It is only a step from boredom to disillusionment, which leads naturally to self-pity, which in turn ends in chaos.

October 13, 2020 1901, Canadian, Manly Hall, March 18, Quotes by Philosophers

Laura Riding Quote: “To a poet the mere making…”

To a poet the mere making of a poem can seem to solve the problem of truth, but only a problem of art is solved in poetry.

July 27, 2020 1901, American, January 16, Laura Riding, Quotes by Poets

Hirohito Quote: “The war has developed not necessarily…”

The war has developed not necessarily to Japan’s advantage.

June 14, 2020 1901, April 29, Hirohito, Japanese, Quotes by Leaders

Laura Riding Quote: “I believe that misconceptions about oneself…”

I believe that misconceptions about oneself that one does not correct where possible act as a bad magic.

June 13, 2020 1901, American, January 16, Laura Riding, Quotes by Poets

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