D. T. Max famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Poems very seldom consist of poetry and nothing else; and pleasure can be derived also from their other ingredients. I am convinced that most readers, when they think they are admiring poetry, are deceived by inability to analyse their sensations, and that they are really admiring, not the poetry of the passage before them, but something else in it, which they like better than poetry.
Art does not exist for politics, or for instruction- it exists primarily for pleasure, or it is nothing.
To Lawren Harris art was almost a mission. He believed that a country which ignored the arts left no record of itself worth preserving.
Art, however innocent, looks like deceiving.
Ambition often puts Men upon doing the meanest offices; so climbing is performed in the same position with creeping.
There's the South Pole, said Christopher Robin, and I expect there's an East Pole and a West Pole, though people don't like talking about them.
God does not so much want us to do things as to let people see what He can do.
My goal has been to encourage jointness, to push people to think of affiliations rather than to operate as solo entrepreneurs.
Major sports are major parts of society. It's not anomalous to have people who love sports come from other parts of that society.
Science fiction is a field of writing where, month after month, every printed word implies to hundreds of thousands of people: 'There is change. Look, today's fantastic story is tomorrow's fact.

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