12 quotes
Once in everyone's life there is apt to be a period when he is fully awake, instead of half asleep.
One Man's Meat (1942)
It is easier for a man to be loyal to his club than to his planet; the bylaws are shorter, and he is personally acquainted with the other members.
One Man's Meat (1942)
A good farmer is nothing more nor less than a handy man with a sense of humus.
One Man's Meat (1942)
Everything in life is somewhere else, and you get there in a car.
One Man's Meat (1942)
I am always humbled by the infinite ingenuity of the lord, who can make a red barn cast a blue shadow.
One Man's Meat (1942)
The future, wave or no wave, seems to me no unified dream but a mince pie, long in the baking, never quite done.
One Man's Meat (1942)
A despot doesn't fear eloquent writers preaching freedom — he fears a drunken poet who may crack a joke that will take hold.
One Man's Meat (1942)
Genius is more often found in a cracked pot than in a whole one.
One Man's Meat (1944)
The planet holds out no such inducement. The planet is everybody's. All it offers is the grass, the sky, the water, the ineluctable dream of peace and fruition.
One Man's Meat (1942)
Television will enormously enlarge the eye's range, and, like radio, will advertise the Elsewhere. Together with the tabs, the mags, and the movies, it will insist that we forget the primary and the near in favor of the secondary and the remote.
One Man's Meat (1942)
A poet dares be just so clear and no clearer... He unzips the veil from beauty, but does not remove it. A poet utterly clear is a trifle glaring
One Man's Meat (1942)
I believe television is going to be the test of the modern world, and that in this new opportunity to see beyond the range of our vision we shall discover either a new and unbearable disturbance of the general peace or a saving radiance in the sky. We shall stand or fall by television — of that I am quite sure.
One Man's Meat (1942)