"As we to the brutes, poets are to us."

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Source : George Meredith (2008). “Diana of The Crossways”, p.225, ReadHowYouWant.com

George Meredith

#Poet Quotes #Brutes Quotes

“In the heart of any pious Jew, God is a Jew. Is your God an Englishman or an American?”
“I'm here to say there is a choice. If you want to stick to the status quo, pick the Republicans or Democrats, but don't complain. Nobody can do a better job than I can.”

Source : "Tea Party Hopeful - Gives Voters Third Choice". Las Vegas Review-Journal, March 08, 2010.
“What can be asserted without evidence can be dismissed without evidence.”
“Hire people who are better than you are, then leave them to get on with it. Look for people who will aim for the remarkable, who will not settle for the routine.”
“What greatly attracted me - and it was the main line of advance of Cubism - was how to give material expression to this new space of which I had an inkling. So I began to paint chiefly still lifes, because in nature there is a tactile, I would almost say a manual space... that was the earliest Cubist painting - the quest for space.”

Source : "Letters of the Great Artists - From Blake to Pollock". Book by Richard Friedenthal, 1963.
“An expert is a man who has made all the mistakes which can be made, in a narrow field.”
“As for New York City, it is a place apart. There is not its match in any other country in the world.”
“Remember, that if thou marry for beauty, thou bindest thyself all thy life for that which perchance will neither last nor please thee one year; and when thou hast it, it will be to thee of no price at all; for the desire dieth when it is attained, and the affection perisheth when it is satisfied.”

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