The writer of prose can only step aside when the poet passes.Quote by William Somerset Maugham about literature, writers, poets
If you violate Nature's laws you are your own prosecuting attorney, judge, jury, and hangman.Quote by Luther Burbank about nature, judges
A probing analysis of the problems of evolution forms the basis of my prose.Quote by Johannes Vilhelm Jensen about literature, evolution, problems
Optimism doesn't wait on facts. It deals with prospects. Pessimism is a waste of time.Quote by Norman Cousins about optimism, time
Death acts like a prostitute who eventually lives you without breath.Quote by Corneliu Vadim Tudor about death
The construction of a poem equals the carving in marble of a statue, or just only a statuettes. The composition of a statuary group sends you to prose.Quote by Barbu Cioculescu about literature
You are killing yourself little by little every day trying to prostitute the beauty.Quote by Jack London about beauty, day
A comfortable old age is the reward of a well-spent youth. Instead of its bringing sad and melancholy prospects of decay, it would give us hopes of eternal youth in a better world.Quote by Maurice Chevalier about olderness, youth, reward, age, old, world