"Poetry is the Devil's wine."

-- Saint Augustine

#Wine Quotes #Poetry Quotes #Devil Quotes

“Is a little experience too much to pay for learning to know oneself?”

Source : Carl Van Vechten (1922). “Peter Whiffle: His Life and Works”
“Considered in its entirety, psychoanalysis won't do. It is an end product, moreover, like a dinosaur or a zeppelin; no better theory can ever be erected on its ruins, which will remain for ever one of the saddest and strangest of all landmarks in the history of twentieth century thought.”
“Artists have made innovations in many areas... But whatever the nature of an artist's innovation, its importance ultimately depends on the extent of its influence on other artists.”

Source : David W. Galenson (2011). “Old Masters and Young Geniuses: The Two Life Cycles of Artistic Creativity”, p.2, Princeton University Press
“Baseball has the largest library of law and love and custom and ritual, and therefore, in a nation that fundamentally believes it is a nation under law, well, baseball is America's most privileged version of the level field.”

Source : Quoted in Sports Illustrated, 17 Apr. 1989
“So long as people don't know how to eat they will not have good cooks.”
“The remarkable social impact and economic success of the Internet is in many ways directly attributable to the architectural characteristics that were part of its design. The Internet was designed with no gatekeepers over new content or services.”
“There are some lawyers who think of themselves as basically instruments of whoever their clients are, and they pride themselves on their professional craft”
“There's no reason in the world why black [people] should not be regarded as an attribute that is not degrading but is positive. There's no reason in the world why any person should think that white is degrading.”

Source : Source: v1.sahistory.org.za

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