There is no place for grief in a house which serves the Muse. – Sappho

There is no place for grief in a house which serves the Muse. – Sappho

Beauty is something wonderful and strange that the artist fashions out of the chaos of the world in the torment of his soul. And when he has made it, it is not given to all to know it. To recognize it you must repeat the adventure of the artist. It is a melody that he sings to you, and to hear it again in your own heart you want knowledge and sensitiveness and imagination. – W. Somerset Maugham

Beauty is something wonderful and strange that the artist fashions out of the chaos of the world in the torment of his soul. And when he has made it, it is not given to all to know it. To recognize it you must repeat the adventure of the artist. It is a melody that he sings to you, and to hear it again in your own heart you want knowledge and sensitiveness and imagination. – W. Somerset Maugham

Comedy aims at representing men as worse, Tragedy as better than in actual life. – Aristotle

Comedy aims at representing men as worse, Tragedy as better than in actual life. – Aristotle