Quotes by Chandler, Raymond

The boys with their feet on the desks know that the easiest murder cas >>

I said something which gave you to think I hated cats. But gad, sir, I >>

The overall picture, as the boys say, is of a degraded community whose >>

Quotations about Poetry and Poets

But all art is sensual and poetry particularly so. It is directly, tha >>

Poetry implies the whole truth, philosophy expresses only a particle o >>

Poetry, even when apparently most fantastic, is always a revolt agains >>

An age which is incapable of poetry is incapable of any kind of literature except the cleverness of a decadence.

Chandler, Raymond