Poems List
All but the hard-hearted must be torn with pity for this pathetic dilemma of the rich man, who has to keep the poor man just stout enough to do the work and just thin enough to have to do it.
All conservatism is based upon the idea that if you leave things alone you leave them as they are. But you do not. If you leave a thing alone you leave it to a torrent of change.
All government is an ugly necessity.
All slang is a metaphor, and all metaphor is poetry. G. K.
AM IN MARKET HARBOROUGH. WHERE OUGHT i TO BE?
An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered.
And Noah he often said to his wife when he sat down to dine,
Angels can fly because they take themselves lightly; devils fall because of their gravity.
Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame.
Art, like morality, consists of drawing the line somewhere.
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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.