It is easier to write an indifferent poem than to understand a good one.Quotation recorded by James Wood
Wood, Dictionary of Quotations, ebook 48105, HTML paragraph 10874. Printed attribution: Montaigne. — https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/48105
Man is only truly great when he acts from his passions; never irresistible but when he appeals to the imagination.Distance doesn't exist, in fact, and neither does time. Vibrations from love or music can be felt everywhere, at all times.There is no more difficult art to acquire than the art of observation, and for some men it is quite as difficult to record an observation in brief and plain language.