Quotes by Max Eastman

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• A poet in history is divine, but a poet in the next room is a joke.

  ― Max Eastman
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• A joke is not a thing but a process, a trick you play on the listener's mind. You start him off toward a plausible goal, and then by a sudden twist you land him nowhere at all or just where he didn't expect to go.

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• Emotion is the surest arbiter of a poetic choice, and it is the priest of all supreme unions in the mind.

  ― Max Eastman
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• Laughter is, after speech, the chief thing that holds society together.

  ― Max Eastman
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• The defining function of the artist is to cherish consciousness.

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Subjects in these quotes:

• consciousness
• laughter
• together
• defining
• function
• supreme

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