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“Art is a way of showing greater fairness to things than is customary.” Eli Siegel, American poet, from Damned Welcome, Aesthetic Realism Maxims
“Every work of art is about everything.” Eli Siegel, American poet, from Damned Welcome, Aesthetic Realism Maxims
“Originality in art puts charm where it wasn’t.” Eli Siegel, American poet, from Damned Welcome, Aesthetic Realism Maxims
“Art can make the old surprising, and the new and sudden soothing.” Eli Siegel, American poet, from Damned Welcome, Aesthetic Realism Maxims
View quotes by Eli Siegel
You will be damned if you do - And you will be damned if you don't (Reflections on the Love of God)
View quotes by Lorenzo Dow
It's better to have written a damned play, than no play at all - it snatches a man from obscurity (The Dramatist)
View quotes by Frederic Reynolds
We seek him here, we seek him there,
Those Frenchies seek him everywhere.
Is he in heaven? - Is he in hell?
That damned, elusive Pimpernel?
(The Scarlet Pimpernel, 1905 vh.12)
View quotes by Baroness Orczy
The public be damned! (on whether the public should be consulted about luxury trains Aug 1918)
View quotes by William Henry Vanderbilt
There is a kind of intellectual provincialism in the dogma that 'life is just one damned thing after another.' Human affairs do not become intelligible until they are seen as a whole.
View quotes by Arnold Toynbee
Our strength is often composed of the weakness that we're damned if we're going to show.
View quotes by Mignon McLaughlin
Forget the damned motor car and build the cities for lovers and friends.
View quotes by Lewis Mumford
You'll never get anywhere with all those damned little short sentences.
View quotes by Gregory Clark
A wonderful bird is the pelican,
His bill will hold more than his belican.
He can take in his beak
Food enough for a week,
But I'm damned if I see how the helican. ['The Pelican']
View quotes by Dixon Lanier Merritt
These poems, with all their crudities, doubts, and confusions, are written for the love of Man and in praise of God, and I'd be a damned fool if they weren't.
View quotes by Dylan Thomas
Forget your personal tragedy. We are all bitched from the start and you especially have to be hurt like hell before you can write seriously. But when you get the damned hurt, use it-don't cheat with it.
View quotes by Ernest Hemingway
I'll be damned if I want most folks out there to do unto me what they do unto themselves.
View quotes by Toni Cade Bambara
Life was a damned muddle - a football game with everyone offside and the referee gotten rid of - everyone claiming the referee would have been on his side.
View quotes by F Scott Fitzgerald
Life is just one damned thing after another.
View quotes by Elbert Hubbard
He who hesitates is a damned fool.
View quotes by Mae West
Forget second - some of my lads are in the showers talking about winning the damned thing!
View quotes by Paul Jewell
Golf always makes me so damned angry.
View quotes by George V
To invoke a Kierkegaardesque figure of speech, the beauty of the language of the Bible can be like a set of dentist's instruments nearly laid out on a table and hanging on a wall, intriguing in their technological complexity and with their stainless steel highly polished--until they set to work on the job for which they were originally designed. Then all of a sudden my reaction changes from 'How shiny and beautiful they all are!' to 'Get that damned thing out of my mouth!'
View quotes by Jaroslav Pelikan
I may be president of the United States, but my private life is nobody's damned business.
View quotes by Chester A Arthur
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