Posted by: Silvana Stremiz
in Quotes & Aphorisms (Poetry)
A poet can survive everything but a misprint.
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A poet can survive everything but a misprint.
The value of an idea has nothing whatever to do with the sincerity of the man who expresses it.
To get back one's youth one has merely to repeat one's follies.
Women are meant to be loved, not to be understood.
I thought I had a heart, but it not right for me. Somehow, it doesn't adapt to modern costumes.
Art is a symbol, because man is a symbol.
Ideals are dangerous things. Realities are better. They wound, but they're better.
There were sins whose fascination was more in the memory than in the doing of them, strange triumphs that gratified the pride more than the passions, and gave to the intellect a quickened sense of joy, greater than any joy they brought, or could ever bring, to the senses.
All charming people, I fancy, are spoiled. It is the secret of their attraction.
Seriousness is the only refuge of the shallow.