Quotes About Cantos

#1. He was your usual man when it came to romance, which is to say he couldn't recite Baa Baa Black Sheep when sober, whereas when drunk, sixteen cantos of Byron's Don Juan was par for the course.

Tyne O'Connell

#2. Artists hide their identities in the brushstrokes of their paintings, the verses in their cantos, and the sentences in their novels. The true face of an artist is never on his face and this is what he prefers. Others misunderstand this displaced melancholy with an absence of melancholy.

Bruce Crown

#3. I had written my master's thesis on Ezra Pound on 'The Cantos.' And don't ask me about it. I don't remember anything about it.

Sally Mann

#4. Most critics agree with the seventeenth-century printer who gave them to the world, that the Mutabilitie Cantos seem to be part of some following book of The Faerie Queene.

Janet Spens

#5. But truth is not the only merit that a metaphysic can possess. It may have beauty, and this is certainly to be found in Plotinus; there are passages that remind one of the later cantos of Dante's Para- diso, and of almost nothing else in literature. Now

Bertrand Russell

#6. Stars scribble on our eyes the frosty sagas, The gleaming cantos of unvanquished space. (Cape Hatteras

Hart Crane

#7. To get a job where the only thing you have to do in your career is to make people laugh-well, it's the best job in the world.

Ronnie Barker

#8. My morale has never been higher than since I stopped asking for grants to keep my lab going.

Robert Pollack

#9. We need to invest in a way that makes sure we've got the workforce we need in the future.

Jeanne Shaheen

#10. The greatest happiness in life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or moreover, loved in spite of ourselves.

Victor Hugo

#11. Not only was it enough to be a cover band, it was perhaps the highest calling. After all, if you could play music recorded by others, stay true to the original, and still add fire and flare, why not?

Paul Shaffer

#12. I am an old sinner; and if God had designed mercy for me, he would have called me home to himself before now.

David Brainerd

#13. A coward dies a thousand deaths ... a soldier dies but once.

J.M. Darhower

#14. Now, here's a philosophical dilemma for a vicar ... is it a lie if you don't know you're lying? Is it a lie if you're lying to yourself?"
"Is it a sin if I tell my cousin to bugger off?

Julie Anne Long

#15. How much hope, expectation, and sheer hard work goes into the smallest success! There is no being sure of anything except that whatever has been created will change in time ...

May Sarton

#16. I try to live without interfering in the lives of others because I have no wish for them to interfere in mine.

Rabih Alameddine

#17. Life is brutal that way ... the loss of irrecoverable moments amid trivia and distraction.

Dan Simmons

#18. The whole business is the crudest sort of stratagem, since we have no way of foreseeing it to the end. It is a mere paying out of rope on the chance that somewhere along the length of it will be a noose.

Isaac Asimov

#19. In difficult times, we're not supposed to quit believing; we're not supposed to quit growing.

Joel Osteen