Max Jacob Quotes

#1. The raven of Edgar Allan Poe has a halo that he extinguishes from time to time

("Spanish Generosity")

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#2. There are some things in this world that can be done over, and some that can't. And time passing is one thing that can't be redone. Come this far, and you can't go back.

Haruki Murakami

#3. When we could split the screen, it was like 'Wow!'.

Sid Caesar

#4. I had been designing for Alessi and Swid Powell and Steuben and high-end people, and people always complained, 'Michael, we'd love to buy your stuff, but it's too expensive.'

Michael Graves

#5. Friendship is inexplicable, it should not be explained if one doesn't want to kill it.

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#6. Have you chosen to stand up and dance to the song in your heart?

Grace Anne Stevens

#7. Man is a venerating animal. He venerates as easily as he purges himself. When they take away from him the gods of his fathers, he looks for others abroad.

Max Jacob

#8. The poet's expression of joy conceals his despair at not having found the reality of joy.

Max Jacob

#9. I haven't read the 'Twilight' books. But it's everywhere so I feel like I know it. Edward, Bella, Jacob, etc. but ... I haven't read them.

Max Irons

#10. A lie can make it half way around the world before the truth has time to put its boots on.

Mark Twain

#11. Her white arms became my entire horizon

("The Rooster And The Pearl")

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#12. We don't know very well those we love But I understand them fairly well Being all these people myself I who am however but a baboon.

Max Jacob

#13. What is called a sincere work is one that is endowed with enough strength to give reality to an illusion.

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#14. Art is a game. Too bad for him who makes a duty of it.

Max Jacob

#15. Cubism is ... a picture for its own sake.
Literary Cubism does the same thing in literature, using reality merely as a means and not as an end.

Max Jacob