What did J. D. Salinger mean by: The true poet has no choice of material. The material plainly chooses him, not he it. - J. D. Salinger Copy
+ I’ll read my books and I’ll drink coffee and I’ll listen to music, and I’ll bolt the door. Feraz Zeid, January 17, 2024January 17, 2024, J. D. Salinger, Book, Coffee, Doors, 0 - J. D. Salinger
+ Some of my best friedns are children. In fact, all of my best friends are children. Feraz Zeid, January 17, 2024January 17, 2024, J. D. Salinger, Best Friend, Children, Fact, 0 - J. D. Salinger
+ Yet a real artist, I’ve noticed, will survive anything. (Even praise, I happily suspect.) Feraz Zeid, January 17, 2024January 17, 2024, J. D. Salinger, Artist, Praise, 0 - J. D. Salinger
+ How long should a man’s legs be? Long enough to touch the ground. Feraz Zeid, January 17, 2024January 17, 2024, J. D. Salinger, Legs, 0 - J. D. Salinger
+ Life is a game, boy. Life is a game that one plays according to the rules. Feraz Zeid, January 17, 2024January 17, 2024, J. D. Salinger, Boys, Games, Success, 0 - J. D. Salinger
+ That’s the whole trouble. When you’re feeling very depressed, you can’t even think. Feraz Zeid, January 17, 2024January 17, 2024, J. D. Salinger, Feelings, Trouble, 0 - J. D. Salinger
+ Don’t tell people what you are thinking, or you will miss them terribly when you are away. Feraz Zeid, January 17, 2024January 17, 2024, J. D. Salinger, Missing, 0 - J. D. Salinger
+ And I can’t be running back and fourth forever between grief and high delight. Feraz Zeid, January 17, 2024January 17, 2024, J. D. Salinger, Grief, Happiness, Running, 0 - J. D. Salinger
O woman! thou wert fashioned to beguile: So have all sages said, all poets sung. - Jean Ingelow Poet · England
Good art, no matter how simple or casual-seeming, always carries a high density of choice. - Walter Darby Bannard Painter · USA
Far too often the choices reality proposes are such as to take away one’s taste for choosing. - Jean Rostand Biologist · France
I am not less poet; I am more conscious of all that I am, am not, and might become. - Jean Toomer Writer
One should commit no stupidity twice, the variety of choice is, in the end, large enough. Explain - Jean-Paul Sartre Philosopher · France
