For an idea ever to be fashionable is ominous, since it must afterwards be always old-fashioned. George Santayana, Winds of Doctrine (1913) ch. 2
US (Spanish-born) philosopher (1863 - 1952) The truth is cruel, but it can be loved, and it makes free those who have loved it. George Santayana, Little Essays (1920) "Ideal Immortality"
US (Spanish-born) philosopher (1863 - 1952) When you strike at a king, you must kill him. Ralph Waldo Emerson
US essayist & poet (1803 - 1882) Nothing is really so poor and melancholy as art that is interested in itself and not in its subject. George Santayana, Life of Reason (1905) vol. 4, ch. 8
US (Spanish-born) philosopher (1863 - 1952) An artist is a dreamer consenting to dream of the actual world. George Santayana, Life of Reason (1905) vol. 4, ch. 3
US (Spanish-born) philosopher (1863 - 1952) Slang is a language that rolls up its sleeves, spits on its hands and goes to work. Carl Sandburg, New York Times Feb. 13, 1959
US biographer & poet (1878 - 1967) I tell you the past is a bucket of ashes. Carl Sandburg, Cornhuskers (1918) "Prairie"
US biographer & poet (1878 - 1967) The fog comes<br> on little cat feet.<br> It sits looking<br> over harbor and city<br> on silent haunches<br> and then moves on. Carl Sandburg, Chicago Poems (1916) "Fog"
US biographer & poet (1878 - 1967) I have lost friends, some by death... others through sheer inability to cross the street. Virginia Woolf, The Waves (1931)
English novelist (1882 - 1941) Miss Brooke had that kind of beauty which seems to be thrown into relief by poor dress. George Eliot, "Middlemarch", Book I, ch.1
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