Coming in solemn beauty like slow old tunes of Spain.
“Coming in solemn beauty like slow old tunes of Spain.”
— John Masefield · Slow
The World Motivation
Coming in solemn beauty like slow old tunes of Spain.
“Coming in solemn beauty like slow old tunes of Spain.”
— John Masefield · Slow
Coming in solemn beauty like slow old tunes of Spain.
It is too maddening. I've got to fly off, right now, to some devilish navy yard, three hours in a seasick steamer, and after being heartily sick, I'll have to speak three times, and then I'll be sick coming home. Still, who would not be sick for England?
Once in a century a man may be ruined or made insufferable by praise. But surely once in a minute something generous dies for want of it.
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.
I've had to work on being a slow talker.
A lot of people say when you have kids, you slow down. I want my kids to see me race.
I love slow music.
I always used to wonder why American actors were getting fat, then I made a U.S. movie. I'm seeing all the food every day, and there's lots of waiting around because making an American movie is very slow.
I used to think I was stupid and slow.
Poetry is a mixture of common sense, which not all have, with an uncommon sense, which very few have.