What did Washington Irving mean by: Poetry is evidently a contagious complaint. Washington Irving Author · USA Copy
+ They who drink beer will think beer. Author, June 25, 2023January 2, 2025, Washington Irving, Indulgence, Influence, Perception, 0 Washington Irving Author · USA
There are moments of mingled sorrow and tenderness, which hallow the caresses of affection. Author, January 13, 2024January 9, 2025, Washington Irving, Affection, Sorrow, Tenderness, 0 Washington Irving Author · USA
It is not poverty so much as pretense that harasses a ruined man. Author, January 13, 2024January 9, 2025, Washington Irving, Poverty, Pretense, Ruin, 0 Washington Irving Author · USA
After all, it is the divinity within that makes the divinity without. Author, January 13, 2024January 9, 2025, Washington Irving, Inner, Outer, Spirituality, 0 Washington Irving Author · USA
+ The oil and wine of merry meeting. Author, June 9, 2023January 2, 2025, Washington Irving, Celebration, Friendship, Joy, 0 Washington Irving Author · USA
I consider a story merely as a frame on which to stretch my materials. Author, January 13, 2024January 9, 2025, Washington Irving, Creativity, Expression, Purpose, 0 Washington Irving Author · USA
+ The paternal hearth, the rallying-place of the affections. Author, July 25, 2023January 2, 2025, Washington Irving, Family, Love, Unity, 0 Washington Irving Author · USA
There is a remembrance of the dead to which we turn even from the charms of the living. Author, January 13, 2024January 9, 2025, Washington Irving, Death, Living, Remembrance, 0 Washington Irving Author · USA
Those who make the worst use of their time are the first to complain of its shortness. Read explanation Jean de la Bruyere Writer · France
Everything is complicated; if that were not so, life and poetry and everything else would be a bore. Wallace Stevens Poet · USA
