What did Mason Cooley mean by: The haiku lets meaning float; the aphorism pins it down. - Mason Cooley Professor · USA Copy
+ I love you is the inscription on Pandora’s box. Feraz Zeid, August 22, 2023December 12, 2023, Mason Cooley, I Love You, 0 - Mason Cooley Professor · USA
+ Duty is whatever opposes inclination. Feraz Zeid, June 23, 2023December 12, 2023, Mason Cooley, Duty, 0 - Mason Cooley Professor · USA
+ The party out of office becomes the articulate one. Feraz Zeid, June 7, 2023December 12, 2023, Mason Cooley, Office, Party, Power, 0 - Mason Cooley Professor · USA
+ Comedy distances pain, but leaves signs of it everywhere. Feraz Zeid, June 10, 2023December 12, 2023, Mason Cooley, Comedy, Distance, Pain, 0 - Mason Cooley Professor · USA
+ Cynicism is full of naive disappointments. Feraz Zeid, July 4, 2023December 12, 2023, Mason Cooley, Cynicism, Disappointment, 0 - Mason Cooley Professor · USA
+ Old and young disbelieve one another’s truths. Feraz Zeid, August 13, 2023December 12, 2023, Mason Cooley, Youth, 0 - Mason Cooley Professor · USA
+ Pride sings and dances; humility sighs. Feraz Zeid, July 14, 2023December 12, 2023, Mason Cooley, Dance, Humility, Pride, 0 - Mason Cooley Professor · USA
+ God improvises. Man systematizes. Feraz Zeid, July 29, 2023December 12, 2023, Mason Cooley, God, Human, 0 - Mason Cooley Professor · USA
Belief in form, but disbelief in content – that’s what makes an aphorism charming. Explain - Friedrich Nietzsche Philosopher · Germany
A sentimental aphorism is even more a surprise than a hard- boiled sonnet. - Mason Cooley Professor · USA
To be thoroughly modern, an aphorism should trail off vaguely rather than coming to a point. - Mason Cooley Professor · USA
Finding a thought for an aphorism is not hard. Putting a kink in its tail is the hard part. - Mason Cooley Professor · USA
A pin has as much head as some authors and a good deal more point. - George D. Prentice Journalist · USA
They say that nameless things change constantly—that names fix them in place like pins. - Holly Black Author · USA
I believe aphorisms are best when first read in the wild, free from the confines of any categories. - James Geary Writer · USA
