Category: Aphorisms

Shakespeare might not have become Shakespeare if time had granted him search engines, computers, and electricity instead of books, quills, and candlelight.

Cats that find their way into the dishwasher: They die or they don’t. Either way, they don’t make that mistake again.

Never do anything with all your heart unless you’re also willing to put your ribs into it.

Hell is a beginner’s poetry workshop where everyone talks about what they see and how they feel.

It’s almost charming how naïve yesterday’s philosophers and poets were in imagining today’s politicians and city planners.

Most martyrs remain nameless.

Unless you’ve been to Croatia, whatever you think about Croatia is probably wrong.

The poetry of Keats is more exciting than his life was.

Emotional instinct is the forefather of intelligent thought.

The moustache outlives the man.