Luigi Pirandello
"We think we understand each other, but we never really do."
“Hurt Into Poetry: On Poetry and Greece”By Stephanos Papadopoulos
Los Angeles Review of Books
Authors
Plato
"Those who tell the stories rule society."
Andrey Platonov
"From our ugliness will grow the soul of the world."
Robert Polito
"But I wasn’t a Cardinal, nephew to the Pope, / and you— / you were not a Caravaggio. / So I asked you to be in my movie."
Charles Portis
"As he drank, little brown drops of coffee clung to his mustache like dew. Men will live like billy goats if they are let alone."
Stephen Potter
"Your function as a critic is to show that it is really you yourself who should have written the book."
Ezra Pound
"Man reading should be man intensely alive. The book should be a ball of light in one's hand."
Books
Genres
Science & Technology
"The nineteenth century believed in science but the twentieth century does not." — Gertrude Stein... More
Nonfiction
"There is nothing more poetic and terrible than the skyscrapers' battle with the heavens that cover them.... More
Comics
"All lurid, unsavory, gruesome illustrations shall be eliminated." — Comics Code, 1954... More
Art & Architecture
"Art is making something out of nothing and selling it." — Frank Zappa... More
Film
"There is only one thing that can kill the Movies, and that is education." — Will Rogers... More