More From W. Somerset Maugham
- "Let us develop the resources of our land, call forth its powers, build up its institutions, promote all its great interests, and see whether we also, in our day and generation, may not perform something worthy to be remembered."
- "It is well known that Beauty does not look with a good grace on the timid advances of Humour."
- "It is not true that suffering ennobles the character; happiness does that sometimes, but suffering for the most part, makes men petty and vindictive."
More In Poetry
- "I have piles of poetry books in the bathroom, on the stairs, everywhere. The only way to write poetry is to read it."― Carol Ann Duffy
- "I think that is where poetry reading becomes such an individual thing. I mean I have friend who like poets who just don’t say anything to me at all, I mean they seem to me rather ordinary and pedestrian."― James Laughlin
- "I like poems that are little games."― Peter Davison