"Popular poets are the parish priests of the Muse, retailing her ancient divinations to a long since converted public."

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George Santayana

#Long Quotes #Poetry Quotes #Ancient Quotes

“There is a terrible loneliness in the spring ...”
“Grief and guilt. A powerful combination. Guilt like a liquid, a thin liquor, seeping everywhere, informing everything, saturating the whole-corrosive, like seawater, scented with the rich stench of ordure and corruption, and carrying with it hard, abrasive shards of grief.”

Source : Simon Mawer (2011). “The Gospel Of Judas”, p.149, Hachette UK
“We travel to open our hearts and eyes and learn more about the world than our newspapers will accommodate.”
“We mothers of grown-up daughters tend to view them with a mixture of love, exasperation, irritation and awe.”
“When the Jews speak of humanity, they mean only the totality of Jews.”
“The mistake you make, don't you see,is in thinking one can live in a corrupt society without being corrupt oneself. After all, what do you achieve by refusing to make money? You're trying to behave as though one could stand right outside our economic system. But one can't. One's got to change the system, or one changes nothing. One can't put things right in a hole-and-corner way, if you take my meaning.”
“I don't want anybody suspecting I am some sheep and part of the Washington D.C. establishment.”
“Books were always important. I have to thank my father, he filled my life with books. He didn't write but he always read. He was a merchant, he filled the store with cigarette smoke and his friends, all talking about books and politics. It was bad for business. He dealt in women's clothing.”

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