Van Wyck Brooks
Van Wyck Brooks
Van Wyck Brookswas an American literary critic, biographer, and historian...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionCritic
Date of Birth16 February 1886
CountryUnited States of America
littles herbs cups
Better the fragrant herb of wit and a little cream of affability than all the pretty cups in the world.
barrels organs
Longfellow is to poetry what the barrel-organ is to music.
oxygen never-forget monopoly
Never forget that it is we New Yorkers and New Englanders who have the monopoly of whatever oxygen there is in the American continent.
people prowess breeding
People of small caliber are always carping. They are bent on showing their own superiority, their knowledge or prowess or good breeding.
running country roots
No one in this country has any root anywhere; we don't live in America, we board here, we are like spiders that run over the surface of the water.
fun men thinking
The instructed man is ashamed to pronounce in an Orphic manner what everybody knows, and because he is silent people think he is making fun of them.
swans profound wells
It is not that the French are not profound, but they all express themselves so well that we are led to take their geese for swans.
book men firsts
No man should ever publish a book until he has first read it to a woman.
motivational vanity people
How delightful is the company of generous people, who overlook trifles and keep their minds instinctively fixed on whatever is good and positive in the world about them. People of small caliber are always carping. They are bent on showing their own superiority, their knowledge or prowess or good breeding. But magnanimous people have no vanity, they have no jealousy, and they feed on the true and the solid wherever they find it. And what is more, they find it everywhere.
genius virtue found
Genius and virtue are to be more often found clothed in gray than in peacock bright.
jealousy vanity people
Magnanimous people have no vanity, they have no jealousy, and they feed on the true and the solid wherever they find it. And, what is more, they find it everywhere.