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• Louis MacNeice:

  I would admit that poetry is something more than mere communication and that if that 'something mor

• Louis MacNeice:

  Wyndham Lewis is basically a pessimist, thinking of human beings as doomed animals or determinist m

• Louis MacNeice:

  The poet is a specialist in something which everyone practises. Herein, poetry differs from the oth

• Louis MacNeice:

  All experiment is made on a basis of tradition; all tradition is the crystallization of experiment.

• Louis MacNeice:

  Everyone is not able, or inclined, to write poetry in the narrower sense any more than everyone is

• Louis MacNeice:

  The poet has no greater number of muscles than the ordinary conversationalist; he merely has more h

• Lewis B. Hershey:

  When we know as much about people as hog specialists know about hogs, we'll be better off.

• Lewis B. Hershey:

  Between a fellow who is stupid and honest and one who is smart and crooked, I will take the first.

• Lewis B. Hershey:

  A boy becomes an adult three years before his parents think he does, and about two years after he t

• Ben Shahn:

  An amateur is someone who supports himself with outside jobs which enable him to paint. A professio