Worth

Famous quotes containing the word worth:

“I dislike modern memoirs. They are generally written by people who have either entirely lost their memories, or have never done anything worth remembering.”
—Oscar Wilde (1854–1900)

“This mournful truth is ev’rywhere confessed,
Slow rises worth by poverty depressed.”
—Samuel Johnson (1709–1784)

“Written poetry is worth reading once, and then should be destroyed. Let the dead poets make way for others. Then we might even come to see that it is our veneration for what has already been created, however beautiful and valid it may be, that petrifies us.”
—Antonin Artaud (1896–1948)