John W. Vessey, Jr. famous quotes

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  • Even when poetry has a meaning, as it usually has, it may be inadvisable to draw it out . . .. Perfect understanding will sometimes almost extinguish pleasure.

  • Perfect understanding will sometimes almost extinguish pleasure.

  • Steadfastness is a noble quality, but unguided by knowledge or humility, it becomes rashness, or obstinacy.

  • Cats and I have an understanding, but we choose not to interact often.

  • We can chart our future clearly and wisely only when we know the path which has led to the present.

  • I think that Shakespeare had his male side and his female side extremely well developed. And this was a great quality of the Elizabethan, all-around Renaissance man. They were not afraid of their male side and their female side co-existing. This somewhere along the line got lost. And then it got misunderstood.

  • If you think it's simple, then you have misunderstood the problem.

  • We breathe in our first language, and swim in our second.

  • Poetry is above all a concentration of the power of language, which is the power of our ultimate relationship to everything in the universe.

  • The most disastrous thing that you can ever learn is your first programming language.

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