Western World

Famous quotes containing the words western world, western and/or world:

    trying to live in the terrible western world

    here where to love at all’s to be a politician, as to love a poem
    is pretentious,
    Frank O’Hara (1926–1966)

    Writers, you know, are the beggars of Western society.
    Octavio Paz (b. 1914)

    The kind of relatedness to the world may be noble or trivial, but even being related to the basest kind of pattern is immensely preferable to being alone.
    Erich Fromm (1900–1980)