The art of the critic in a nutshell: to coin slogans without betraying ideas. The slogans of an inadequate criticism peddle ideas ...to fashion.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The shrewd guess, the fertile hypothesis, the courageous leap to a tentative conclusion--these are the most valuable coin of the t...hinker at work. But in most schools guessing is heavily penalized and is associated somehow with laziness.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
For he could coin, or counterfeit New words, with little or no wit;... Words so debas'd and hard, no stone Was hard enough to touch them on; And when with hasty noise he spoke 'em; The ignorant for current took 'em;LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Constancy ... that small change of love, which people exact so rigidly, receive in such conterfeit coin, and repay in baser metal.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Now blessings light on him that first invented this same sleep: it covers a man all over, thoughts and all, like a cloak; 'tis mea...t for the hungry, drink for the thirsty, heat for the cold, and cold for the hot. 'Tis the current coin that purchases all the pleasures of the world cheap; and the balance that sets the king and the shepherd, the fool and the wise-man even. There is only one thing ... that I dislike in sleep; 'tis that it resembles death; there's very little difference between a man in his first sleep, and a man in his last sleep.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It is not funny that a man should be killed, but it is sometimes funny that he should be killed for so little, and that his death ...should be the coin of what we call civilization.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The moral equalizes all; enriches, empowers all. It is the coin which buys all, and which all find in their pocket. Under the whip... of the driver, the slave shall feel his equality with saints and heroes.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I shall speak of ... how melancholy and utopia preclude one another. How they fertilize one another.... Of the revulsion that foll...ows one insight and precedes the next.... Of superabundance and surfeit. Of stasis in progress. And of myself, for whom melancholy and utopia are heads and tails of the same coin.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
A box of teak, a box of sandalwood, A brass-ringed spyglass in a case,... A coin, leaf-thin with many polishings, Last kingdom of a gold forgotten face, These lie about the room....LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »