Van Wyck Brooks
Van Wyck Brooks
Van Wyck Brookswas an American literary critic, biographer, and historian...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionCritic
Date of Birth16 February 1886
CountryUnited States of America
jealousy vanity people
Magnanimous people have no vanity, they have no jealousy, and they feed on the true and the solid wherever they find it. And, what is more, they find it everywhere.
swans profound wells
It is not that the French are not profound, but they all express themselves so well that we are led to take their geese for swans.
barrels organs
Longfellow is to poetry what the barrel-organ is to music.
self-esteem ancestry heredity
Nothing is so soothing to our self-esteem as to find our bad traits in our forebears. It seems to absolve us.
oxygen never-forget monopoly
Never forget that it is we New Yorkers and New Englanders who have the monopoly of whatever oxygen there is in the American continent.