Country Male Artist

Famous quotes containing the words country, male and/or artist:

“I believe that in this country the press exerts a greater and a more pernicious influence than the church did in its worst period.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

“In life, then, no new thing has ever arisen, or can arise, save out of the impulse of the male upon the female, the female upon the male. The interaction of the male and female spirit begot the wheel, the plough, and the first utterance that was made on the face of the earth.”
—D.H. (David Herbert)

“I remember
a dream two nights ago: the voice,
‘the artist must
create himself or be born again.’”
—Denise Levertov (b. 1923)