Great Throughts Treasury

"Look closely at the Japanese; they draw admirably and yet in them you will see life outdoors and in the sun without shadows." -

"The thing that surprises the college graduate most when he gets out in the world is to find out how much uneducated people know." - Evan Esar

"The serious artist must be as open as nature. Nature does not give all of herself in a paragraph. She is rugged and not set apart into discreet categories." - Ezra Pound, fully Ezra Weston Loomis Pound

"Though she had no one to write to, she had bought herself a blotter, a writing case, a pen and envelopes; she would dust off her whatnot, look at herself in the mirror, take up a book, and then begin to daydream and let it fall to her lap? She wanted to die. And she wanted to live in Paris." - Gustave Flaubert

"The perfect is the enemy of the good." - Italian Proverbs