Tag "Poets"
GOODMAN, Paul
CitationContextSource IDCitation “It is by losing himself in the objective, in inquiry, creation, and craft that man becomes something.” ~Paul Goodman, American author & social critic The Community of Scholars (1962) New York, NY: Random House, p. 175 Context Extended excerpt [Nonfiction]: “The principle of the studium generale is that civilization has been a continual gift of the creator spirit; it consists of inventions, discoveries, insights, art works, highly theorized institutions, and methods of workmanship. All of this has vastly accumulated over the ages and become very unwieldy, yet, in the spirit, it is always appropriable. As Socrates would have said, it’s meaning can be recalled. The advantage of recalling it
GILBERT, Jack
CitationContextSource ISBNCitation “Can you understand being alone so long you would go out in the middle of the night and put a bucket into the well so you could feel something down there tug at the other end of the rope?” ~Jack Gilbert, American author “The Abandoned Valley” (11 March 2005) Refusing Heaven, New York: Borzoi Book, 13 March 2007 edition, p. 25 Context Extended excerpt [Full poem cited.]: “Can you understand being alone so long you would go out in the middle of the night and put a bucket into the well so you could feel something down there tug at the other end of the rope?” (p. 25)
EASTMAN, Max
CitationContextSource LinkCitation “It is the ability to take a joke, not make one, that proves you have a sense of humor.” ~Max Eastman, American author & editor Enjoyment of Laughter (1936) New York: Simon & Schuster, 1936, 8th printing, p. 36; online via Open Library [free subscription service] openlibrary.org Context Extended excerpt [Eastman, sharing his ‘amateur opinion’ that ‘apes have a rudimentary sense of humor.']: “He has at least enough feeling for a playful trick to understand that he has been teased and not attacked. It is the ability to take a joke, not make one, that proves you have a sense of humor.” (pp. 36-37) Source Link Source
YOUNG, Edward
CitationContextSource LinkCitation “All men think all men mortal, but themselves.” ~Edward Young, English poet “The Complaint. Night the First” (1742) in The Complaint: Or, Night-Thoughts on Life, Death & Immortality, Night I, London: D. Dodsley, 1742 second edition, p. 28, line 422; online via University of California & Google Books, books.google.com Context Extended excerpt [Spelling & capitalization as found in original text]: “All men think all men Mortal, but themselves; Themselves, when some alarming shock of Fate Strikes thro’ their wounded hearts the suddain Dread; But their hearts wounded, like the wounded Air, Soon close, where past the shaft, no Trace is found” (p. 28, lines 421 – 425)
FISHER, Dorothy Canfield
DOROTHY CANFIELD FISHER – Author Quotes