Max Eastman
Max Eastman
Max Forrester Eastmanwas an American writer on literature, philosophy and society; a poet, and a prominent political activist. Moving to New York City for graduate school, Eastman became involved with liberal and radical circles in Greenwich Village. He supported socialism and became a leading patron of the Harlem Renaissance, and an activist for a number of liberal and radical causes. For several years, he edited The Masses. With his sister Crystal Eastman, in 1917 he co-founded The Liberator, a radical...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionAuthor
Date of Birth4 January 1883
CountryUnited States of America
Max Eastman quotes about
Humor is a kind of emotional chaos told about calmly and quietly in retrospect.There is always a laugh in the utterly familiar.
Dogs laugh, but they laugh with their tails.
Dogs laugh, but they laugh with their tails. What puts man in a higher state of evolution is that he has got his laugh on the right end.
It is art that makes life, makes interest, makes importance and I know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of its process.
Chemical stimulation blunted the edge of Edna's otherwise so carefully cherished genius
Patriotism is one of the unalterable facts of man's nature. It is a virtue if you like it, and a vice if you don't like it.
Classic art was the art of necessity: modern romantic art bears the stamp of caprice and chance.
Living well is the best revenge.If opportunity doesn't knock, build a door.
A poet in history is divine, but a poet in the next room is a joke
Emotion is the surest arbiter of a poetic choice, and it is the priest of all supreme unions in the mind
I don't know why it is we are in such a hurry to get up when we fall down. You might think we would lie there and rest for a while.
Dogs laugh, but they laugh with their tails. What puts man in a higher state of evolution is that he has got his laugh on the right end.
Robert Benchley has a style that is weak and lies down frequently to rest.
A joke is not a thing but a process, a trick you play on the listener's mind. You start him off toward a plausible goal, and then by a sudden twist you land him nowhere at all or just where he didn't expect to go.