“Even kings but play; and when their part is done, some other, worse or better, mounts the throne.”
“Sirs, I have tested your machine. It adds a new terror to life and makes death a long-felt want.”
Source : When pressed by a gramophone company for a written testimonial, in Hesketh Pearson 'Beerbohm Tree' (1956) ch. 19; Beerbohm later insisted 'the immortalism must stand' when asked to make amendments
“Even if the world ends, the music will still survive.”
Source : "Great Muslims of undivided India" by Nikhat Ekbal, Gyan Publishing House, (p. 45), 2009.
“Why speak of the use of poetry? Poetry is what uses us.”
Source : Hayden Carruth (2006). “Toward the Distant Islands: New & Selected Poems”, p.25, Copper Canyon Press
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