What did Edith Wharton mean by: The visible world is a daily miracle, for those who have eyes and ears. Edith Wharton Novelist · United Copy
+ Inkstands and tea-cups are never as full as when one upsets them. Author, December 14, 2023December 28, 2024, Edith Wharton, Accidents, Chaos, 0 Edith Wharton Novelist · United
+ And you’ll sit beside me, and we’ll look, not at visions, but at realities. Author, December 14, 2023December 28, 2024, Edith Wharton, Companionship, Perception, Reality, 0 Edith Wharton Novelist · United
+ Our blindest impulses become evidence of perspicacity when they fall in with the course of events. Author, December 14, 2023December 28, 2024, Edith Wharton, Evidence, Impulses, 0 Edith Wharton Novelist · United
+ Beware of monotony; it’s the mother of all the deadly sins. Author, July 3, 2023January 2, 2025, Edith Wharton, Monotony, Sin, Warning, 0 Edith Wharton Novelist · United
+ One of the first obligations of art is to make all useful things beautiful. Author, December 14, 2023December 28, 2024, Edith Wharton, Art, Beauty, Utility, 0 Edith Wharton Novelist · United
+ In our hurried world too little value is attached to the part of the connoisseur and dilettante. Author, December 14, 2023December 28, 2024, Edith Wharton, Appreciation, Knowledge, Time, 0 Edith Wharton Novelist · United
+ Some things are best mended by a break. Author, August 16, 2023January 2, 2025, Edith Wharton, Growth, Healing, Transformation, 0 Edith Wharton Novelist · United
+ The effect produced by a short story depends almost entirely on its form. Author, December 14, 2023December 28, 2024, Edith Wharton, Focus, Form, Impact, 0 Edith Wharton Novelist · United
Lying is the only art form that the public sanctions and instinctively prefers to reality. Read explanation Jean Cocteau Artist · France
Look out! Be on your guard, because alone of all the arts, music moves all around you. Jean Cocteau Artist · France
The extreme limit of wisdom, that’s what the public calls madness. Read explanation Jean Cocteau Artist · France
