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How does the poet transform his banal thoughts (are not most thoughts banal?) into such stunning forms, into beauty?

+Fav | Go to Quote / Comment | Joyce Carol Oates |

Nothing is quite so wretchedly corrupt as an aristocracy which has lost its power but kept its wealth and which still has endless leisure to devote to nothing but banal enjoyments. All its great thoughts and passionate energy are things of the past, and nothing but a host of petty, gnawing vices now cling to it like worms to a corpse.

+Fav | Go to Quote / Comment | Alexis Charles Henri Clrel de Tocqueville |

+Fav | Go to Quote / Comment | Nothing is quite so wretchedly corrupt as an aristocracy which has lost its power but kept its wealth and which still has endless leisure to devote to nothing but banal enjoyments All its great thoughts and passionate energy are things of the past and n |

All my life I've been harassed by questions: Why is something this way and not another? How do you account for that? This rage to understand, to fill in the blanks, only makes life more banal. If we could only find the courage to leave our destiny to chance, to accept the fundamental mystery of our lives, then we might be closer to the sort of happiness that comes with innocence.

+Fav | Go to Quote / Comment | Luis Bunuel |

There's something tragic in the fate of almost every person—it's just that the tragic is often concealed from a person by the banal surface ...

+Fav | Go to Quote / Comment | Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev |