Christopher Morley Quotes About Hunger

Quotes about: Hunger

• Poetry comes with anger, hunger and dismay; it does not often visit groups of citizens sitting down to be literary together, and would appal them if it did.

  Christopher Morley

  Poetry, Together, Sitting Down

  Christopher Morley (1931). “John Mistletoe”, Doubleday, Doran

• Between ourselves, there is no such thing, abstractly, as a 'good' book. A book is 'good' only when it meets some human hunger or refutes some human error.

  Christopher Morley

  Book, Errors, Hunger

  Christopher Morley (2013). “The Haunted Bookshop”, p.10, Melville House

• Truth and Beauty (perhaps Keats was wrong in identifying them: perhaps they have the relation of Wit and Humour, or Rain and Rainbow) are of interest only to hungry people. There are several kinds of hunger. If Socrates, Spinoza, and Santayana had had free access to a midnight icebox we would never have heard of them. Shall I be ashamed of my little mewing truths?... I ask to be forgiven: they are such tiny ones.

  Christopher Morley

  Philosophy, Rain, People

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