“4671. The most exquisite Folly is made of Wisdom too fine spun.”
Thomas Fuller (writer) (1654–1734) British physician, preacher, and intellectual
Introductio ad prudentiam: Part II (1727), Gnomologia (1732)
“Poetry comes fine-spun from a mind at ease.”
I, i, 39
Tristia (Sorrows)
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“Laws are a fine thing on paper, but painful when no bribery can ease their bind.”
Paolo Bacigalupi book The Windup Girl
Source: The Windup Girl (2009), p. 212
“Truly fine poetry must be read aloud.”
Jorge Luis Borges (1899–1986) Argentine short-story writer, essayist, poet and translator, and a key figure in Spanish language literature
"The Divine Comedy" (1977)
Context: Truly fine poetry must be read aloud. A good poem does not allow itself to be read in a low voice or silently. If we can read it silently, it is not a valid poem: a poem demands pronunciation. Poetry always remembers that it was an oral art before it was a written art. It remembers that it was first song.
Kresley Cole American writer
Source: Dreams of a Dark Warrior
Yvor Winters (1900–1968) American poet and literary critic
The Audible Reading of Poetry (1951)
George Holmes Howison (1834–1916) American philosopher
Source: The Limits of Evolution, and Other Essays, Illustrating the Metaphysical Theory of Personal Ideaalism (1905), The Limits of Evolution, p.39
Harriet Monroe (1860–1936) American poet and editor
'A Poets life, Seventy Years in changing world' Macmillan, New York 1938
A Poet 's Life (1938)
“True ease in writing comes from art, not chance,
As those move easiest who have learn'd to dance.”
Alexander Pope An Essay on Criticism
Source: An Essay on Criticism (1711)
“Some people will tell you there is a great deal of poetry and fine sentiment in a chest of tea.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882) American philosopher, essayist, and poet
Source: Letters and Social Aims
“"If wine is fine, everything is fine, and if it's bad, never mind, as long as it is wine."”
Julián Hernández (1960)
"Si el vino está bien, todo está bien, y si está mal, da lo mismo, con tal de que sea vino..."
taken by Rock de Lux magazine.