More From W. Somerset Maugham
- "It is well known that Beauty does not look with a good grace on the timid advances of Humour."
- "Old age is ready to undertake tasks that youth shirked because they would take too long."
- "A man marries to have a home, but also because he doesn’t want to be bothered with sex and all that sort of thing."
More In Poetry
- "I cannot speak for more than an hour exclusively about poetry. At that point, life itself takes over again."― Wislawa Szymborska
- "I sometimes talk about the making of a poem within the poem."― Howard Nemerov
- "A poem is true if it hangs together. Information points to something else. A poem points to nothing but itself."― E. M. Forster