What did Mason Cooley mean by: The haiku lets meaning float; the aphorism pins it down. - Mason Cooley Professor · USA Copy
+ Fame is fickle, but Obscurity is usually faithful to the end. Feraz Zeid, January 16, 2024January 16, 2024, Mason Cooley, Faithful, Fickle, Obscurity, 0 - Mason Cooley Professor · USA
+ Clothes make the body both mysterious and historical. Feraz Zeid, June 4, 2023December 12, 2023, Mason Cooley, Body, Clothes, Historical, 0 - Mason Cooley Professor · USA
+ One who can find lemons sweet and grapes sour is ready for Dame Fortune. Feraz Zeid, January 16, 2024January 16, 2024, Mason Cooley, Grapes, Sweet, 0 - Mason Cooley Professor · USA
+ Pain pays no attention to moans or excuses. Feraz Zeid, June 13, 2023December 12, 2023, Mason Cooley, Attention, Pain, Pay, 0 - Mason Cooley Professor · USA
+ If I could do my life over, I would try to cleanse at least my pleasures of self-pity. Feraz Zeid, January 16, 2024January 16, 2024, Mason Cooley, Pity, Self, 0 - Mason Cooley Professor · USA
+ I criticize myself ruthlessly, but never mention the faults of which I am truly ashamed. Feraz Zeid, January 16, 2024January 16, 2024, Mason Cooley, Ashamed, Criticize, Faults, 0 - Mason Cooley Professor · USA
+ I know that I am what I am. But I am not sure what I am. Feraz Zeid, June 28, 2023December 12, 2023, Mason Cooley, 0 - Mason Cooley Professor · USA
+ Travelling carries me to the surface, away from the deeps of home-thoughts. Feraz Zeid, January 16, 2024January 16, 2024, Mason Cooley, Home, Travel, 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
