#temporary

Every American poet feels that the whole responsibility for contemporary poetry has fallen upon his shoulders, that he is a literary aristocracy of one. ↗

— W. H. Auden

#aristocracy #contemporary #every #fallen #feels

Works of art produced in the contemporary world are a further expression of that. But I don't think there is an active, ongoing nihilist self-consciousness in the artist. ↗

— Leonard Baskin

#art #artist #contemporary #contemporary world #expression

Love: A temporary insanity curable by marriage. ↗

— Ambrose Bierce

#curable #insanity #love #temporary

An obituary should be an exercise in contemporary history, not a funeral oration. ↗

— Peter Utley

#contemporary history #exercise #funeral #history #obituary

Sometimes...the hardest part about letting someone go is realizing that you were never meant to have them. ↗

— Rebecca Serle

#love #shakespeare #love

My butt has a maximum drive time of seven hours. ↗

— Elle Lothlorien

#contemporary-romance

One of the best temporary cures for pride and affectation is seasickness; a man who wants to vomit never puts on airs. ↗

— Josh Billings

#airs #best #cures #man #never

Well, I'm not sure, but of one thing I am certain: History judges one differently than contemporary observers, and so I think that as time passes, I hope that not me personally so much, but our administration will be seen for some of the things that we accomplished. ↗

— David Dinkins

#administration #am #certain #contemporary #differently

Suicide is a permanent solution to a temporary problem. ↗

— Phil Donahue

#problem #solution #suicide #temporary

I write contemporary rock with Jane's. And I also write house music with people like Kascade. ↗

— Perry Farrell

#contemporary #house #i #i write #jane