Clifton Fadiman Quotes

Wine is bottled poetry, he thinks.

Wine is bottled poetry.

Wine it is the milk of Venus, And the poet's horse accounted: Ply it and you all are mounted.

A glass of good wine is a gracious creature, and reconciles poor mortality to itself and that is what few things can do.

Poetry is a deal of joy and pain and wonder, with a dash of the dictionary.

Wine ... offers a greater range for enjoyment and appreciation than possibly any other purely sensory thing which may be purchased.

Music is meant to be a beautiful thing.

I think wine is such a big universe that it's kind of like food - it's intimidating to a lot of people, myself included.

As in an explosion, I would erupt with all the wonderful things I saw and understood in this world.

What has always attracted me in life is poetry. Any genre can have poetry. For me, poetry contains truth.

Nonfiction speaks to the head. Fiction speaks to the heart. Poetry speaks to the soul. It's the essence of beauty. The essence of pain. It pleases the eye and the ear.

Music should strike fire from the heart of man, and bring tears from the eyes of woman.

A picture is a poem without words.

Money is a kind of poetry.

I have long been a fan and enthusiast where art is concerned.

What love is to man, music is to the arts and to mankind.

I can't imagine a world without music.

I have been brought up around art. Even now, when I travel, I love going to museums and spend hours in front of paintings. Art is like oxygen for me. That's what I miss in Bombay.

It's amazing what art can do.

I just love music. I think it's art.

A world without poetry and art would be too much like one without birds or flowers: bearable but a lot less enjoyable.

Poems don't have to rhyme... Poems are about beauty and emotion; in other words poems are about feelings.

Wine, madam, is God's next best gift to man.

Wine, one of the noblest cordials in nature.

A person with increasing knowledge and sensory education may derive infinite enjoyment from wine.