I don't see how an epigram, being a bolt from the blue, with no introduction or cue, ever gets itself writ.
Take my advice, dear reader, don’t talk epigrams even if you have the gift. I know, to those have, the temptation is almost irresistible. But resist it. Epigram and truth are rarely commensurate. Truth has to be somewhat chiselled, as it were, before it will quite fit into an epigram.
I summed up all systems in a phrase, and all existence in an epigram.
France was long a despotism tempered by epigrams.
Epigram and truth are rarely commensurate. Truth has to get somewhat chiseled, as it were, before it will fit into an epigram.
Our live experiences, fixed in aphorisms, stiffen into cold epigrams. Our heart's blood, as we write it, turns to mere dull ink.
Anyone can tell the truth, but only very few of us can make epigrams.
Better a lively old epigram than a deadly new one.
Epigrams delight us into wisdom.
You can cram a truth into an epigram - the truth, never.
My poetry is not lyric. The epigrams are lyric because they come from my youthful period of lyricism, but my other poetry is not lyric.
Epigrams need no crier, but are content with their own tongue.
