#classic

When sonneteering Wordsworth re-creates the landing of Mary Queen of Scots at the mouth of the Derwent - Dear to the Loves, and to the Graces vowed, The Queen drew back the wimple that she wore - he unveils nothing less than a canvas by Rubens, baroque master of baroque masters; this is the landing of a TRAGIC Marie de Medicis. Yet so receptive was the English ear to sheep-Wordsworth's perverse 'Enough of Art' that it is not any of these works of supreme art, these master-sonnets of English literature, that are sold as picture postcards, with the text in lieu of the view, in the Lake District! it is those eternally, infernally sprightly Daffodils. ↗

— Brigid Brophy

#criticism #deep #half-witted-sheep #wordsworth #art

It could be said that a single person has written all the books in the world such central unity is in them that they are undeniably the work of a single all-knowing master. ↗

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

#inspirational #poetry #inspirational

With the shrinking of the US economy, and it's shrinking very rapidly, you not only have more money, but you also have fewer goods. That's a classic double-whammy on inflation. ↗

— Arthur Laffer

#classic #economy #fewer #goods #inflation

Of course, the whole Andy Kaufman angle was classic. I'm real proud of that. I mean that is something people are still talking about 20 years later, making movies about and that sort of thing. I mean not a day goes by that someone doesn't mention Andy Kaufman to me. ↗

— Jerry Lawler

#andy #angle #classic #course #day

I had the classic 40 meltdown. I did. It's embarrassing. It was pretty funny. But then I recovered. To me, it was like a second adolescence. Hormonally, my body was changing, my mind was changing, and so my relationship to myself and the world around me came to this assault of finiteness. ↗

— Keanu Reeves

#around #assault #body #came #changing

They're simply following what was laid down in front and they play the same thing. So, there's no great challenge In being a classical drummer. ↗

— Buddy Rich

#challenge #classical #down #drummer #following

I doubt whether classical education ever has been or can be successfully carried out without corporal punishment. ↗

— George Orwell

#carried #classical #corporal #doubt #education

We were really interested in music from all over the world. We realized that what we were doing was very close to contemporary classical music because of the lack of tonality in the guitar- the fact that I play guitar the way I play. ↗

— Arto Lindsay

#classical #classical music #close #contemporary #doing

Styles may change, details may come and go, but the broad demands of aesthetic judgement are permanent. ↗

— Roger Scruton

#beauty #classic #style #beauty

I am just the classic person who wants to learn stuff. I want good tutors, and with Kurt I had the best. ↗

— Courtney Love

#best #classic #good #had #i