Poems List
The person who is really in revolt is the optimist, who generally lives and dies in a desperate and suicidal effort to persuade all the other people how good they are.
The poet only asks to get his head into the heavens. It is the logician who seeks to get the heavens into his head. And it it his head that splits. G.K.
The poetry of art is in beholding the single tower; the poetry of nature in seeing the single tree; the poetry of love in following the single woman; the poetry of religion in worshipping the single star.
The poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese. G.K.
The poor object to being governed badly, while the rich object to being governed at all.
The power of hoping through everything, the knowledge that the soul survives its adventures, that great inspiration comes to the middle-aged. God has kept that good wine until now.
The repetition in nature may not be a mere recurrence. It may be a theatrical “encore.”
The rich are the scum of the earth in every country.
The thing I hate about an argument is that it always interrupts a discussion. G. K.
The trouble about always trying to preserve the health of the body is that it is so difficult to do so without destroying the health of the mind.
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Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1874-1936) foi um dos intelectuais mais prolíficos e influentes da Inglaterra do início do século XX. Sua obra abrange poesia, ficção (notavelmente os contos do Padre Brown), ensaios, crítica e apologética cristã. Chesterton era um mestre da paradoxo e da aforismo, usando seu humor e sua inteligência para defender ideias conservadoras e a fé cristã. Sua personalidade era tão marcante quanto sua escrita; era descrito como um homem corpulento, de aparência jovial e com uma mente brilhante e inquisitiva. Lutou contra o que via como o declínio do pensamento racional e espiritual na sociedade moderna, advogando por valores tradicionais e pela dignidade humana.