Max Eastman Quotes

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Dogs laugh, but they laugh with their tails. - Max Eastman quote.
Dogs laugh, but they laugh with their tails.

dogs laughter

The defining function of the artist is to cherish consciousness. - Max Eastman quote.
The defining function of the artist is to cherish consciousness.
— Max Eastman Enjoyment of Poetry: With Other Essays in Aesthetics

artists

A poet in history is divine, but a poet in the next room is a joke. - Max Eastman quote.
A poet in history is divine, but a poet in the next room is a joke.
— Max Eastman

poets

A liberal mind is a mind that is able to imagine itself believing anything. - Max Eastman quote.
A liberal mind is a mind that is able to imagine itself believing anything.
— Max Eastman

imagination

It is the ability to take a joke, not make one, that proves you have a sense of humor. - Max Eastman quote.
It is the ability to take a joke, not make one, that proves you have a sense of humor.

sense of humor

People who demand neutrality in any situation are usually not neutral but in favor of the status quo. - Max Eastman quote.
People who demand neutrality in any situation are usually not neutral but in favor of the status quo.
— Max Eastman Enjoyment of Poetry: With Other Essays in Aesthetics
Emotion is the surest arbiter of a poetic choice, and it is the priest of all supreme unions in the mind. - Max Eastman quote.
Emotion is the surest arbiter of a poetic choice, and it is the priest of all supreme unions in the mind.
— Max Eastman
There is a persistent difference of opinion about puns, some finding them cottony in the mouth, and others doting on the taste of them. - Max Eastman quote.
There is a persistent difference of opinion about puns, some finding them cottony in the mouth, and others doting on the taste of them.

puns

Dogs laugh, but they laugh with their tails. What puts man in a higher state of evolution is that he has got his laugh on the right end. - Max Eastman quote.
Dogs laugh, but they laugh with their tails. What puts man in a higher state of evolution is that he has got his laugh on the right end.
— Max Eastman

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