Literary Birthday - 4 July - Nathaniel Hawthorne Nathaniel Hawthorne Happy Birthday, Nathaniel Hawthorne, born 4 July 1804, died 19 May 1864 Seven Quotes Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them. Easy reading is damn hard writing. Nobody, I think, ought to read poetry, or look at pictures or statues, who cannot find a great deal more in them than the poet or artist has actually expressed. Their highest merit is suggestiveness. The only sensible ends of literature are, first, the pleasurable toil of writing; second, the gratification of one’s family and friends; and lastly, the solid cash. What we call real estate - the solid ground to build a house on - is the broad foundation on which nearly all the guilt of this world rests. It is very queer, but not the less true, that people are generally quite as vain, or even more so, of their deficiencies than of their available gifts. No man for any considerable period can wear one face to himself and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which may be the true. Hawthorne was an American novelist and short story writer, best known for The Scarlet Letterwriters-write-creative-blog.posthaven/literary-birthday-4-july-nathaniel-hawthorne
Posted on: Fri, 04 Jul 2014 06:01:53 +0000
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