"Women overrate the influence of fine dress and the latest fashions upon gentlemen; and certain it is that the very expensiveness of such attire frightens the beholder from all ideas of matrimony."

“The state is in danger of falling into disrepute due to the evidence of its inadequate resources.”

“He suddenly opened his eyes and looked at everyone in the room. It was a terrible gaze, mad or maybe furious and full of fear of death... Then something incomprehensible and frightening happened. ... He suddenly lifted his left hand as though he were pointing to something above and bringing down a curse on us all. ... The next moment, after a final effort, the spirit wrenched itself free of the flesh.”

“There is no beauty without order.”

“Ethics are complete, profound and alive only when addressed to all living beings. Only then are we in spiritual connection with the world. Any philosophy not representing this, not based on the indefinite totality of life, is bound to disappear.”

“It's all bullshit on Everest these days.”

“I suppose I passed it a hundred times, But I always stop for a minute. And look at the house, the tragic house, The house with nobody in it.”

Source : Joyce Kilmer (1918). “Joyce Kilmer”

“Gymnastics is not at all as popular as, for example, soccer. Gymnastics as a sport isn't promoted very well.”

“How does one happen to write a poem: where does it come from? That is the question asked by the psychologists or the geneticists of poetry.”

Source : allen tate (1953). “the man of letters in the modern world”