EROSTRATUS

• A classic is a man who expresses himself; a romantic a man who...
• A nossa época não é para longos poemas - T
• Anyone who is in any way a poet knows very well how much easier...
• Blank verse, the one so called, is an extremely dull medium to write in.
• Chesterton lives in tha atmosphere of half-truth...
• Consiseness and a hold on the reader, wich are required in detective stories,
• Except when it is the product of chance,
• For Hamlet is, in a different way than was once thought,
• Genius is insanity made sane by dilution in the abstract,
• Grow old, as God himself...”Paradise Lost”... They tend to age...
• He (the artist) may not be intelligent, but he must be intellectual.
• I purpose to examine the problem of celebrity,
• If anyone wishes clearly to understand what is meant...
• If we hesitate in pitying the drug fool who saturates cocaine with himself,
• IMPERMANENCE - A Greek intellect and a modern sensibility.
• IMPERMANENCE - A mesquinhez
• IMPERMANENCE - First comes the choice of authors.
• IMPERMANENCE - It is more difficult to affirm what shall survive...
• IMPERMANENCE - The problem of the survival of literary works,
• In every case, the nobler the genius, the less noble the fate.
• In the arts which are not literature, we have a universal speech...
• It is a curious circumstance that frustrated types easily fall into celebrity.
• It is ideas, as distinct from purposes, that make immortality...
• It may be admited that genius is unappreciated in its age...
• It might be supposed that the presence, in the same man,
• It will at once occur to ask how is it that genius comes...
• Nothing worth expressing ever remains unexpressed;
• One of the most disconcerting phenomena in celebrity is that...
• Our age is not that of long poems,
• Posterity, says Faguet, likes only concise writers:
• Professional improbity and inefficiency are perhaps the distinctive...
• Realists do small things, romantics great ones.
• Shaw, minor artist though he be, has nevertheless the virtue of being a stimulant.
• Some works die because they are of no worth;
• Sometimes the temperament of the man and the temperament...
• Taking this distinction of human faculties in conjunction...
• The celebrity of nations is, in a certain sense, similar to the celebrity of men.
• The formation of definitive fame is analogous to this.
• The truth about such men as Shaw...
• There are only two types of constant mood with which life is worth living...
• There is in a genius an obscure element...
• They are beneath thinking of contempt.
• This value of the element of foreignness,
• We shall move from private poets to public anthologies.
• What portion of genius there may be in the present age,
• Wit is common and generally human.