The crown of literature is poetry.
More from William Somerset Maugham
No gray hairs streak my soul, no grandfatherly fondness there! I shake the world with the might of my voice, and walk-handsome, twentytwoyearold.
Permalink to quote #131 The essence of the beautiful is unity in variety.
Permalink to quote #133 It seems that the creative faculty and the critical faculty cannot exist together in their highest perfection.
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