Gerald BrenanThinkers

A Cliche is dead poetry.

Henry Miller is not really a writer but a non-stop talker to whom someone has given a typewriter.

Imagination is letting the birds in one's head out of their cages and watching them fly up in the air.

The Intellectual is someone who believes that ideas are of more importance than values. That is to say, their own ideas and other people's values.

Leisure is a rare skill — We are closer to the ants than to the butterflies. Very few people can endure much leisure.

Marriage is an arrangement by which two people start by getting the best out of each other and often end by getting the worst.

Old age is that time in life that takes away what we've inherited and gives us what we've earned.

Poetry is the result of a struggle in the poet's mind between something he wants to say and the medium in which he is trying to say it.

Wisdom is keeping a sense of fallibility of all our views and opinions.