Samuel Butler: The Discobolus is put here because he is vulgar — He has neither vest nor pants with which to cover his limbs.

The Discobolus is put here because he is vulgar — He has neither vest nor pants — Samuel Butler

The Discobolus is put here because he is vulgar — He has neither vest nor pants with which to cover his limbs.

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The great characters of fiction live as truly as the memories of dead men. For t — Samuel Butler
Sin is like a mountain with two aspects according to whether it is viewed before — Samuel Butler
This poem would not have taken so well if it had been called “The Old Sailor.” — Samuel Butler
The limits of the body seem well defined enough as definitions go, but definitio — Samuel Butler
There is no nature which is inferior to art, the arts imitate the nature of thin — Marcus Aurelius
Life imitates art far more than art imitates Life. — Oscar Wilde
Although we have a heart for the work, Art is long and time is short. — Charles Baudelaire
Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere. — G. K. Chesterton
Farewell, farewell! but this I tell To thee, thou Wedding-Guest! He prayeth well — Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Muriel Rukeyser unspools one of the most passionate arguments I've ever read for — Eileen Myles in "Fear of Poetry" in The Nation
Even the disciple has his uses. He stands behind one's throne, and at the moment — Oscar Wilde
La reconnaissance de la plupart des hommes n'est qu'une secrète envie de recevoi — François de La Rochefoucauld