Quote

A poem compresses much in a small space and adds music, thus heightening its meaning.

E. B. White

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

E. B. White
Age: 86 †
Born: 1899
Born: July 11
Died: 1985
Died: October 1
Editor
Essayist
Journalist
Novelist
Poet
Screenwriter
Writer
Mount Vernon
New York
Elwyn Brooks White
E.B. White
Art
Heightening
Music
Adds
Much
Poem
Add
Thus
Meaning
Small
Space
Compresses

More quotes by E. B. White

Image
Don't write about Man write about a man.
E. B. White
Image
Luck is not something you can mention in the presence of self-made men.
E. B. White
Image
The main thing I try to do is write as clearly as I can. I rewrite a good deal to make it clear.
E. B. White
Image
A writer is like a bean plant - he has his little day, and then gets stringy.
E. B. White
Image
New York blends the gift of privacy with the excitement of participation and better than most dense communities it succeeds in insulating the individual (if he wants it, and almost everybody wants or needs it) against all enormous and violent and wonderful events that are taking place every minute.
E. B. White
Image
A really companionable and indispensable dog is an accident of nature. You can't get it by breeding for it, and you can't buy it with money. It just happens along.
E. B. White
Image
Geese are friends to no one, they bad mouth everybody and everything. But they are companionable once you get used to their ingratitude and false accusations.
E. B. White
Image
A writer should concern himself with whatever absorbs his fancy, stirs his heart, and unlimbers his typewriter. ... A writer has the duty to be good, not lousy: true, not false lively, not dull accurate, not full of error. He should tend to lift people up, not lower them down.
E. B. White
Image
The world likes humor, but it treats it patronizingly. It decorates its serious artists with laurel, and its wags with Brussels sprouts.
E. B. White
Image
I can still see my first dog. For six years he met me at the same place after school and convoyed me home - a service he thought up himself. A boy doesn't forget that sort of association.
E. B. White
Image
Hang on to your hat. Hang on to your hope. And wind the clock, for tomorrow is another day.
E. B. White
Image
Necessity first mothered invention. Now invention has little ones of her own, and they look just like grandma.
E. B. White
Image
The living language is like a cowpath: it is the creation of the cows themselves, who, having created it, follow it or depart from it according to their whims or their needs. From daily use, the path undergoes change. A cow is under no obligation to stay
E. B. White
Image
Good deeds never go unpunished.
E. B. White
Image
I am still encouraged to go on. I wouldn't know where else to go.
E. B. White
Image
When you say something, make sure you have said it. The chances of your having said it are only fair.
E. B. White
Image
I am reminded of the advice of my neighbor. Never worry about your heart till it stops beating.
E. B. White
Image
Television should be our Lyceum, our Chautauqua, our Minsky's and our Camelot.
E. B. White
Image
A good many of the special words of business seem designed more to express the user's dreams than to express a precise meaning.
E. B. White
Image
If sometimes there seems to be a sort of sameness of sound in The New Yorker, it probably can be traced to the magazine's copydesk, which is a marvelous fortress of grammatical exactitude and stylish convention.
E. B. White