1,425 Quotes by Mason Cooley

Life is struggle and sleep.

Rhyme and meter force gaps in meaning so the muse can enter.

Whatever is spoken of acquires a certain existence.

When poets go off the boil, they sound like bumble bees; when critics do, they sound like sewing machines.

In the present age, a man with harmonious ideas is regarded as out of touch.

Title deeds generally outlast poems.

Beggars remind us that not all miseries arise from our ideas.

Abyss-mongering makes professors and poets feel daring.

In philosophy, the principles are more interesting than the examples. In literature, the examples are more interesting than the principles.