Our Friends Gerald Brenan Quotes
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~ Gerald Brenan Quote
Poets and painters are outside the class system, or rather they constitute a special class of their own, like the circus people and the gypsies.
~ Gerald Brenan Quote
Those who have some means think that the most important thing in the world is love. The poor know that it is money.
~ Gerald Brenan Quote
The award of a pure gold medal for poetry would flatter the recipient unduly: no poem ever attains such carat purity.
~ Gerald Brenan Quote
We are closer to the ants than to the butterflies. Very few people can endure much leisure.
~ Gerald Brenan Quote
Miller is not really a writer but a non-stop talker to whom someone has given a typewriter.
~ Gerald Brenan Quote
Middle age snuffs out more talent than even wars or sudden death does.
~ Gerald Brenan Quote
As I get older I seem to believe less and less and yet to believe what I do believe more and more.
~ Gerald Brenan Quote
Everyone is a bore to someone. That is unimportant. The thing to avoid is being a bore to oneself.
~ Gerald Brenan Quote
If you wish to be brothers, let the arms fall from your hands. One cannot love while holding offensive arms.
~ Gerald Brenan Quote
Words are as recalcitrant as circus animals, and the unskilled trainer can crack his whip at them in vain.
~ Gerald Brenan Quote
In a happy marriage it is the wife who provides the climate, the husband the landscape.
~ Gerald Brenan Quote
I am thirty-three - the age of the good Sans-culotte Jesus; an age fatal to revolutionists.
~ Gerald Brenan Quote
Intellectuals are people who believe that ideas are of more importance than values. That is to say, their own ideas and other people's values.
~ Gerald Brenan Quote
The cliche is dead poetry. English, being the language of an imaginative race, abounds in cliches, so that English literature is always in danger of being poisoned by its own secretions.
~ Gerald Brenan Quote