| ---- | "What
is a poet? A poet is an unhappy being
whose heart is torn by secret sufferings, but
whose lips are so strangely formed that when the
sighs cries escape them, they sound like
beautiful and music...And men crowd about the
poet and say to him: 'Sing for us soon again';
that is as much as to say 'May new sufferings
torment your soul, but may your lips be formed as
before; for the cries would only frighten us, but
the music is delicious.' And the critics come,
too, and say: 'Quite correct, and so it ought to
be aesthetics.' resembles a poet to a hair; he
only lacks the according to the rules of Now it
is understood that a critic suffering in his
heart and the music upon his lips. Lo, therefore,
I would rather be a swineherd from Amager, and be
understood by the swine, than be a poet and be
misunderstood by men." -Soren Kierkegaard, Dutch philosopher. |
"All
writers are vain, selfish and lazy, and
at the very bottom of their motives lies a
mystery. Writing a book is a long, exhausting
struggle, like a long bout of some painful
illness. One would never undertake such a thing
if one were not driven by some demon whom one can
neither resist nor understand." |
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| "Myths
which are believed in tend to become
true." -GeorgeOrwell |
Vegetarianism "I have no doubt that it is a part of the destiny of the human race, in its gradual improvement, to leave off eating animals, as surely as the savage tribes have left off eating each other when they came in contact with the more civilized." -Henry David Thoreau, U.S. philosopher, author, naturalist. |
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"The
fancy that extraterrestrial life is by
definition of a higher order than our own is one
that soothes all children, and many
writers." |
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