Quotes by Eastman, Max

The defining function of the artist is to cherish consciousness. >>

Laughter is, after speech, the chief thing that holds society together >>

A poet in history is divine, but a poet in the next room is a joke. >>

Quotations about Emotions

We find nothing easier than being wise, patient, superior. We drip wit >>

Do not arouse disdainful mind when you prepare a broth of wild grasses >>

There are strings in the human heart that had better not be vibrated. >>

Emotion is the surest arbiter of a poetic choice, and it is the priest of all supreme unions in the mind.

Eastman, Max