I am fairly tired--bored beyond endurance--by the world we live in, and its ideals, and am ready to say so, not violently, but kin...dly, as one rubs salt into the back of a flogged sailor as though one loved him.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
In the years of President Ford Decorum and calm were restored.... He did nothing hateful For which we were grateful But terribly, terribly bored.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I'm bored to extinction with Harrison. His limericks and puns are embarrassing.... But I'm fond of the bum, For, though dull as they come, He makes me feel bright by comparison.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The distinction between the two types of art is a difference of density rather than of species. In the same number of bars of Beet...hoven and Sousa, there is, in Beethoven, more of the essence of music, giving a thicker, more intense effect likely to alienate the unfamiliar listener by "boring" him, just as the palate accustomed to that richer food is bored by the thinness of the popular tune. The feeling that this is not the only difference is due to the fact that as an art grows more and more complex and dense, the number of relations among simple elements increases until those relations look like extraordinarily refined experiences denied to the common herd. Yet there is no real barrier to be leaped over by an effort of genius between understanding a "vulgar" dance tune and a Beethoven symphony.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Life, friends, is boring. We must not say so. After all, the sky flashes, the great sea yearns,... we ourselves flash and yearn, and moreover my mother told me as a boy (repeatingly) "Ever to confess you're bored means you have no Inner Resources." I conclude now I have no inner resources, because I am heavy bored.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »