Is it possible to make a sharp distinction between the content and the the form, between the personality of the Texas auctioneer and the language that he uses? Are not our attitudes toward people and events in great part shaped by the very language in which we describe them? When we try to describe one person to another or to a group, what do we say? Not usually how or what that person ate, rarely what he wore, only occasionally how he managed his job -- no, what we tell is what he said and, if we are good mimics, how he said it. We apparently consider a person's spoken words the true essence of his being. Cleanth Brooks
Is it possible for a man to move the earth? Yes
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More Quotes By Cleanth Brooks
Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.
It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.
Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish its source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of witherings, of tarnishings.
I would always rather be happy than dignified.
He's more myself than I am. Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same.
