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  • What the world wants, what the world is waiting for, is not Modern Poetry or Classical Poetry or Neo-Classical Poetry - but Good Poetry. And the dreadful disreputable doubt, which stirs in my own skeptical mind, is doubt about whether it would really matter much what style a poet chose to write in, in any period, as long as he wrote Good poetry.
  • 4 years ago



    Tags : Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes , Writing Quotes , Long Quotes
  • There are works which wait, and which one does not understand for a long time; the reason is that they bring answers to questions which have not yet been raised; for the question often arrives a terribly long time after the answer.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Oscar Wilde Quotes , Long Quotes , Waiting Quotes
  • Nothing that rest on some contradictory basis shall succeed or last in the long run ("ne saurait réussir ou durer, à la longue", Fr.); all that involve (or imply...) a contradiction is fatally destined, early or late, to disintegrate and disappear.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : African Spir Quotes , Running Quotes , Long Quotes
  • So long as the spectator has to figure out the meaning of this or that person, or the presuppositions of this or that conflict of inclinations and purposes, he cannot become completely absorbed in the activities and sufferings of the chief characters or feel breathless pity and fear.
  • 4 years ago



    Tags : Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes , Character Quotes , Long Quotes
  • Our words must be judged by our deeds; and in striving for a lofty ideal we must use practical methods; and if we cannot attain all at one leap, we must advance towards it step by step, reasonably content so long as we do actually make some progress in the right direction.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Theodore Roosevelt Quotes , Long Quotes , Progress Quotes