What did Brooks Atkinson mean by: Poetry is as vital to thinking as knowledge. - Brooks Atkinson Critic · USA Copy
+ Every man with an idea has at least two or three followers. Feraz Zeid, July 7, 2023December 12, 2023, Brooks Atkinson, Ideas, 0 - Brooks Atkinson Critic · USA
+ It seems not to have been written. It is the quintessence of life. It is the basic truth. Feraz Zeid, December 28, 2023January 10, 2024, Brooks Atkinson, Truth, 0 - Brooks Atkinson Critic · USA
+ Land was created to provide a place for boats to visit. Feraz Zeid, September 2, 2023December 26, 2023, Brooks Atkinson, Land, Pirate, Sea, 0 - Brooks Atkinson Critic · USA
+ After each war there is a little less democracy left to save. Feraz Zeid, December 28, 2023January 10, 2024, Brooks Atkinson, Democracy, War, 0 - Brooks Atkinson Critic · USA
+ I have no objections to churches so long as they do not interfere with God’s work. Feraz Zeid, December 28, 2023January 10, 2024, Brooks Atkinson, Diversity, Justice, 0 - Brooks Atkinson Critic · USA
+ Life is seldom as unendurable as, to judge by the facts, it logically ought to be. Feraz Zeid, December 28, 2023January 10, 2024, Brooks Atkinson, Fact, Judging, 0 - Brooks Atkinson Critic · USA
+ Real art is illumination, it adds stature to life. Feraz Zeid, June 4, 2023December 12, 2023, Brooks Atkinson, Art, Illumination, 0 - Brooks Atkinson Critic · USA
+ In the ideal sense nothing is uninteresting; there are only uninterested people. Feraz Zeid, December 28, 2023January 10, 2024, Brooks Atkinson, Ideals, Perspective, 0 - Brooks Atkinson Critic · USA
The art of poetry is to touch the passions, and its duty to lead them on the side of virtue. - William Cowper Poet · England
The machinations of ambiguity are among the very roots of poetry. - William Empson Poet and literary critic · England
All poetry like every work of art proceeds from a swift vision of things. - Honoré de Balzac Writer · France
The present is never poetic as it serves necessity, necessity, however, is prosaic. - Franz Grillparzer Writer · Austria
What raises great poetry above all else–it is the entire person and also the entire world. - Franz Grillparzer Writer · Austria
