What did Abraham Cowley mean by: His faith, perhaps, in some nice tenets might Be wrong; his life, I’m sure, was in the right. - Abraham Cowley Poet · England Copy
+ Unbind the charms that in slight fables lie and teach that truth is truest poesy. Feraz Zeid, January 5, 2024January 7, 2024, Abraham Cowley, Fables, Fiction, Lying, 0 - Abraham Cowley Poet · England
+ Nay, in death’s hand, the grape-stone proves As strong as thunder is in Jove’s. Feraz Zeid, January 5, 2024January 7, 2024, Abraham Cowley, Hands, Stones, Strong, 0 - Abraham Cowley Poet · England
+ Poets by Death are conquer’d but the wit Of poets triumphs over it. Feraz Zeid, January 5, 2024January 7, 2024, Abraham Cowley, Conquer, Poet, Triumph, 0 - Abraham Cowley Poet · England
+ Nothing is there to come, and nothing past, But an eternal Now does always last. Feraz Zeid, January 5, 2024January 7, 2024, Abraham Cowley, Past, Time, 0 - Abraham Cowley Poet · England
+ Life for delays and doubts no time does give, None ever yet made haste enough to live. Feraz Zeid, January 5, 2024January 7, 2024, Abraham Cowley, Doubt, 0 - Abraham Cowley Poet · England
+ Plenty, as well as Want, can separate friends. Feraz Zeid, July 30, 2023December 12, 2023, Abraham Cowley, Friendship, 0 - Abraham Cowley Poet · England
+ Thus each extreme to equal danger tends, Plenty, as well as Want, can sep’rate friends. Feraz Zeid, January 5, 2024January 7, 2024, Abraham Cowley, Danger, Equal, 0 - Abraham Cowley Poet · England
+ The world’s a scene of changes. Explain Feraz Zeid, August 23, 2023December 24, 2023, Abraham Cowley, Scene, 0 - Abraham Cowley Poet · England
I’ve taught, and the first thing I did when I taught art, was not to teach art. Explain - Louise Berliawsky Nevelson Sculptor · Ukraine
Appreciation of art is a moral erection, otherwise mere dilettantism. Explain - Jean Cocteau Artist · France
Lying is the only art form that the public sanctions and instinctively prefers to reality. Explain - Jean Cocteau Artist · France
Whatever the world condemns you for, make it your own. It is yourself. Explain - Jean Cocteau Artist · France
The liabilities are always 100 percent good. It’s the assets you have to worry about. Explain - Charlie Munger Business person
It’s stupid the way people extrapolate the past — and not slightly stupid, but massively stupid. Explain - Charlie Munger Business person
Film will only became an art when its materials are as inexpensive as pencil and paper. - Jean Cocteau Artist · France
