I believe aphorisms are best when first read in the wild, free from the confines of any categories.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Aphorisms are bad for novels. They stick in the reader's teeth.
Aphorisms are food for thought - like sushi, they come in small portions that are both delicious and exquisitely formed. And, like sushi, I can never get enough.
There is nothing more difficult to define than an aphorism.
Someone who can write aphorisms should not fritter away his time in essays.
The aphorism in which I am the first master among Germans, are the forms of 'eternity'; my ambition is to say in ten sentences what everyone else says in a book - what everyone else does not say in a book.
I lost many literary battles the day I read 'Their Eyes Were Watching God.' I had to concede that occasionally aphorisms have their power. I had to give up the idea that Keats had a monopoly on the lyrical.
Our live experiences, fixed in aphorisms, stiffen into cold epigrams. Our heart's blood, as we write it, turns to mere dull ink.
The laughter of the aphorism is sometimes triumphant, but seldom carefree.
The greatest masterpiece in literature is only a dictionary out of order.
An aphorism ought to be entirely isolated from the surrounding world like a little work of art and complete in itself like a hedgehog.