Wolfe

Famous quotes containing the word wolfe:

    His bill’s so yellow,
    his coat’s so black,
    that he makes a fellow
    whistle back.
    —Humbert Wolfe (1885–1940)

    Not “Seeing is Believing” you ninny, but “Believing is Seeing.” For modern art has become completely literary: the paintings and other works exist only to illustrate the text.
    —Tom Wolfe (b. 1931)

    There had been a time on earth when poets had been young and dead and famous—and were men. But now the poet as the tragic child of grandeur and destiny had changed. The child of genius was a woman, now, and the man was gone.
    —Thomas Wolfe (1900–1938)