Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
Young poets bewail the passing of love old poets, the passing of time. There is surprisingly little difference.
Mason Cooley
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
Mason Cooley
Age: 75 †
Born: 1927
Born: January 1
Died: 2002
Died: July 25
Aphorist
Time
Passings
Love
Passing
Poet
Difference
Differences
Young
Bewail
Littles
Surprisingly
Little
Poets
More quotes by Mason Cooley
The only peace is being out of earshot.
Mason Cooley
Errors are more numerous than truths, but fortunately too divided among themselves to take power.
Mason Cooley
Seeing my malevolent face in the mirror, my benevolent soul shrinks back.
Mason Cooley
The rich are never as possessed by their riches as the poor are by their poverty.
Mason Cooley
Giving out crowns to everyone will not make a nation of kings.
Mason Cooley
The psychiatrist's office: the only place I can be sure my story will be treated as sad, but interesting.
Mason Cooley
The higher the moral tone, the more suspect the speaker.
Mason Cooley
If you are going to break a Law of Art, make the crime interesting.
Mason Cooley
Eccentricity: strength of character doubling back on itself.
Mason Cooley
Skepticism may undermine beliefs, but never belief.
Mason Cooley
The nonsense that charms is close to sense.
Mason Cooley
Like an electric tea-kettle, pornography comes to a boil very fast.
Mason Cooley
Sacred or not, sacrifice is an ugly business.
Mason Cooley
Thank God for the passing of the discomforts and vile cuisine of the age of chivalry!
Mason Cooley
I tried good taste, but the strain was too much for me.
Mason Cooley
Literary tradition is full of lies about poverty-the jolly beggar, the poor but happy milkmaid, the wholesome diet of porridge, etc.
Mason Cooley
I do not remember joy or sorrow in childhood, but listening for clues.
Mason Cooley
When appearance and reality coincide, philosophy and literary criticism find themselves with nothing to say.
Mason Cooley
Undecidability is a useful category even in dealing with restaurant menus.
Mason Cooley
In the great cities, winter glitters with art and feasting. But poetry, the country cousin, sees only the dearth of the fields.
Mason Cooley
