Quotes by Eastman, Max

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

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

Emotion is the surest arbiter of a poetic choice, and it is the priest >>

Quotations about Fun

Innocent amusements are such as excite moderately, and such as produce >>

She concedes that she's the one she pleases. >>

If you do not feel yourself growing in your work and your life broaden >>

A joke is not a thing but a process, a trick you play on the listener's mind. You start him off toward a plausible goal, and then by a sudden twist you land him nowhere at all or just where he didn't expect to go.

Eastman, Max