It is fatal to suppose the great writer was too wise or too profound for us ever to understand him; to think of art so i — John Erskine
It is fatal to suppose the great writer was too wise or too profound for us ever to understand him; to think of art so i — John Erskine
It is fatal to suppose the great writer was too wise or too profound for us ever to understand him; to think of art so i — John Erskine
It is fatal to suppose the great writer was too wise or too profound for us ever to understand him; to think of art so i — John Erskine
It is fatal to suppose the great writer was too wise or too profound for us ever to understand him; to think of art so i — John Erskine
It is fatal to suppose the great writer was too wise or too profound for us ever to understand him; to think of art so i — John Erskine
It is fatal to suppose the great writer was too wise or too profound for us ever to understand him; to think of art so i — John Erskine
It is fatal to suppose the great writer was too wise or too profound for us ever to understand him; to think of art so i — John Erskine
It is fatal to suppose the great writer was too wise or too profound for us ever to understand him; to think of art so i — John Erskine
It is fatal to suppose the great writer was too wise or too profound for us ever to understand him; to think of art so i — John Erskine
It is fatal to suppose the great writer was too wise or too profound for us ever to understand him; to think of art so i — John Erskine
It is fatal to suppose the great writer was too wise or too profound for us ever to understand him; to think of art so i — John Erskine
It is fatal to suppose the great writer was too wise or too profound for us ever to understand him; to think of art so i — John Erskine
It is fatal to suppose the great writer was too wise or too profound for us ever to understand him; to think of art so i — John Erskine
It is fatal to suppose the great writer was too wise or too profound for us ever to understand him; to think of art so i — John Erskine
It is fatal to suppose the great writer was too wise or too profound for us ever to understand him; to think of art so i — John Erskine
It is fatal to suppose the great writer was too wise or too profound for us ever to understand him; to think of art so i — John Erskine
It is fatal to suppose the great writer was too wise or too profound for us ever to understand him; to think of art so i — John Erskine
It is fatal to suppose the great writer was too wise or too profound for us ever to understand him; to think of art so i — John Erskine
It is fatal to suppose the great writer was too wise or too profound for us ever to understand him; to think of art so i — John Erskine
It is fatal to suppose the great writer was too wise or too profound for us ever to understand him; to think of art so i — John Erskine
It is fatal to suppose the great writer was too wise or too profound for us ever to understand him; to think of art so i — John Erskine
It is fatal to suppose the great writer was too wise or too profound for us ever to understand him; to think of art so i — John Erskine
It is fatal to suppose the great writer was too wise or too profound for us ever to understand him; to think of art so i — John Erskine
It is fatal to suppose the great writer was too wise or too profound for us ever to understand him; to think of art so i — John Erskine
It is fatal to suppose the great writer was too wise or too profound for us ever to understand him; to think of art so i — John Erskine
It is fatal to suppose the great writer was too wise or too profound for us ever to understand him; to think of art so i — John Erskine
It is fatal to suppose the great writer was too wise or too profound for us ever to understand him; to think of art so i — John Erskine
It is fatal to suppose the great writer was too wise or too profound for us ever to understand him; to think of art so i — John Erskine
It is fatal to suppose the great writer was too wise or too profound for us ever to understand him; to think of art so i — John Erskine
Download Customize

It is fatal to suppose the great writer was too wise or too profound for us ever to understand him; to think of art so is not to praise but to murder it, for the next step after that tribute will be neglect of the masterpiece.

— John Erskine
Pin Share Tweet Telegram
Topics
classics great books reading

More “Classics” Quotes

God isn't going to scribble across the sky. "The shark is gone. — Peter Benchley, Jaws
Would not the earth, quickened to an evil purpose by the sympathy of his eye, greet him with poisonous shrubs... Would h — Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter
I came trusting them. They beat me with rods of dullness. They don't know, they don't understand how agonizing their com — Sinclair Lewis
They ordered punch. They drank it. It was hot rum punch. The pen falters when it attempts to treat of the excellence the — W. Somerset Maugham
It was past midnight. From the carpark of the apartment blocks, a human figure with an unsteady gait emerged. — Lim Thean Soo, Ricky Star
I felt emotions of gentleness and pleasure, that had long appeared dead, revive within me. Half surprised by the novelty — Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Frankenstein
You arranged everything according to your own taste, and so I got the same tastes as you - or else I pretended to. I am — Henrik Ibsen, A Doll's House
Move thy tongue,For silence is a sign of discontent. — Elizabeth Cary, The Tragedy of Mariam
I have seen or heard of no other man whom destiny treated with such enmity as it did Philoktetes — Sophocles, Philoctetes
Nobody could catch cold by the sea; nobody wanted appetite by the sea; nobody wanted spirits; nobody wanted strength. Se — Jane Austen, Lady Susan, The Watsons, Sanditon
A book isn't a single, static thing with one unarguable meaning. Each reader who comes to it brings his own special know — Alexei Panshin, Rite of Passage
Jonah-John-if I had been a Sam, I would have been a Jonah still-not because I have been unlucky for others, but because — Kurt Vonnegut Jr., Cat's Cradle