#bsc

Before people complain of the obscurity of modern poetry, they should first examine their consciences and ask themselves with how many people and on how many occasions they have genuinely and profoundly shared some experience with another. ↗

— W. H. Auden

#ask #before #complain #consciences #examine

Frankly I've never really subscribed to these adjectives tagging me as an 'icon', 'superstar', etc. I've always thought of myself as an actor doing his job to the best of his ability. ↗

— Amitabh Bachchan

#actor #adjectives #always #best #doing

I pass by that it is very culpable to be facetious in obscene and smutty matters. ↗

— Isaac Barrow

#matters #obscene #pass #smutty #very

The eye by long use comes to see even in the darkest cavern: and there is no subject so obscure but we may discern some glimpse of truth by long poring on it. ↗

— George Berkeley

#darkest #discern #even #eye #glimpse

Look, freedom is an overwhelming American notion. The idea that we want to see the world, the peoples of the world free is something that all of us subscribe to. ↗

— Joe Biden

#free #freedom #idea #look #notion

I've always liked being relatively obscure. I feel that's where I belong, that's where my work belongs. ↗

— Don DeLillo

#being #belong #belongs #feel #i

On the other hand, the artist has much to do in the realm of color construction, which is so little explored and so obscure, and hardly dates back any farther than to the beginning of Impressionism. ↗

— Robert Delaunay

#artist #back #beginning #color #construction

The problem of how we finance the welfare state should not obscure a separate issue: if each person thinks he has an inalienable right to welfare, no matter what happens to the world, that's not equity, it's just creating a society where you can't ask anything of people. ↗

— Jacques Delors

#anything #ask #creating #each #equity

What is grand is necessarily obscure to weak men. That which can be made explicit to the idiot is not worth my care. ↗

— William Blake

#explicit #grand #idiot #made #men

Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever. ↗

— Napoleon Bonaparte

#fleeting #forever #glory #obscurity