"A poet in history is divine, but a poet in the next room is a joke"

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Source : Max Eastman (1939). “Enjoyment of Poetry: With Other Essays in Aesthetics”

Max Eastman

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“A library could show you everything if you knew where to look.”
“Adults constantly raise the bar on smart children, precisely because they're able to handle it. The children get overwhelmed by the tasks in front of them and gradually lose the sort of openness and sense of accomplishment they innately have. When they're treated like that, children start to crawl inside a shell and keep everything inside. It takes a lot of time and effort to get them to open up again. Kids' hearts are malleable, but once they gel it's hard to get them back the way they were.”
“O the wind is a faun in the spring time When the ways are green for the tread of the May! List! hark his lay! Whist! mark his play! T-r-r-r-l! Hear how gay!”
“Brazil eats, sleeps and drinks football. It lives football!”
“I define "grindin'" as just nonstop work! Nonstop work, nonstop progress. Can't sleep during that grind - I mean, you get a little bit of it, but if you're progressin' at every hour, every second, you are grindin'.”

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“Love is giving your kids your undivided attention and time”
“I think it's a very bad idea for someone to start writing for a readership.”
“I read a lot when I was in school in the United States, and even though writing in English is very difficult for me, I wrote in journals.”

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