“Commonplace people dislike tragedy because they dare not suffer and ca...” — John Masefield Quote

Commonplace people dislike tragedy because they dare not suffer and cannot exult.

Coming in solemn beauty like slow old tunes of Spain.

Since the printing press came into being, poetry has ceased to be the delight of the whole community of man; it has become the amusement and delight of the few.

In this life he laughs longest who laughs last.

Poetry is a mixture of common sense, which not all have, with an uncommon sense, which very few have.

Language is the soul of intellect, and reading is the essential process by which that intellect is cultivated beyond the commonplace experiences of everyday life.

Life holds one great but quite commonplace mystery. Though shared by each of us and known to all, seldom rates a second thought. That mystery, which most of us take for granted and never think twice about, is time.

I love to take something very commonplace and reuse it in an original way.

I have found in experiments, people become used to the robots. The less startling they become, the more commonplace they get. If these robots do become commonplace, then that uncanny effect will go away.