More From Gilbert K. Chesterton
- "The most dangerous criminal now is the entirely lawless modern philosopher. Compared to him, burglars and bigamists are essentially moral men."
- "There is a great deal of difference between an eager man who wants to read a book and the tired man who wants a book to read."
- "Experience which was once claimed by the aged is now claimed exclusively by the young."
More In Poetry
- "Some people think my father was a spy, because of working for that government agency in Vietnam, but he can’t find his car keys, much less keep a national secret."― Lauren Graham
- "A poet’s autobiography is his poetry. Anything else is just a footnote."― Yevgeny Yevtushenko
- "I’ve often entertained paranoid suspicions about my fridge and what it’s been doing to my poetry when I’m not looking, but I never even considered that my fan was thinking about me."― George Murray