Wolfe

Famous quotes containing the word wolfe:

    His bill’s so yellow,
    his coat’s so black,
    that he makes a fellow
    whistle back.
    —Humbert Wolfe (1885–1940)

    Not even the most powerful organs of the press, including Time, Newsweek, and The New York Times, can discover a new artist or certify his work and make it stick.... They can only bring you the scores.
    —Tom Wolfe (b. 1931)

    There had been a time on earth when poets had been young and dead and famous—and were men. But now the poet as the tragic child of grandeur and destiny had changed. The child of genius was a woman, now, and the man was gone.
    —Thomas Wolfe (1900–1938)