• An age which is incapable of poetry is incapable of any kind of literature except the cleverness of a decadence.

  Raymond Chandler
  American writer 1888-1959
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Subjects in these quotes:

1. literature
2. cleverness
3. decadence

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An age which is incapable of poetry is incapable of any kind of literature except the cleverness of a decadence. by : Raymond Chandler

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