"People should like poetry the way a child likes snow, and they would if poets wrote it."

-- Wallace Stevens

#Children Quotes #Snow Quotes #People Quotes

“One of the things I'm best at is modeling. I find someone who is best at something I want to learn. Then I model them, and learn it myself. Then, when I've proven it to myself, I teach it to others.”
“After telephone, kinematograph and phonograph had replaced newspaper, book schoolmaster and letter, to live outside the range of the electric cables was to live an isolated savage.”
“I think that plain old intellectualism [can be] a more powerful force than the idea of the femme fatale.”
“A man doesn't need a study to know if he's feeling amorous. There is no such thing as a placebo erection.”
“Marriage is supposed to do everything, like Duz, which is more than half its problem. It is said to save us, define us, give us purpose, keep us from loneliness, and incidentally balance our diet and wash our socks, and when it doesn't, we get divorced.”
“The larger the audience the better. The more pockets in the world, the more interesting and exciting because it just makes it that much more liberating. This makes it that much more liberating for the various facets of creativity to be explored.”
“By background I'm both a Quaker and a Yorkshireman, which I like to call double jeopardy.”
“Nothing is falser than people's preconceptions and ready-made opinions; nothing is sillier than their sham morality.”

Source : Gaius Petronius Arbiter (1962). “The Satyricon of Petronius Arbiter”

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