Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. Quote

When I think of talking, it is of course with a woman. For talking at its best being an inspiration, it wants a corresponding divine quality of receptiveness, and where will you find this but in a woman?


The Poet at the Breakfast Table (1872)


When I think of talking, it is of course with a woman. For talking at its best being an inspiration, it wants a corresponding divine quality of...

When I think of talking, it is of course with a woman. For talking at its best being an inspiration, it wants a corresponding divine quality of...

When I think of talking, it is of course with a woman. For talking at its best being an inspiration, it wants a corresponding divine quality of...

When I think of talking, it is of course with a woman. For talking at its best being an inspiration, it wants a corresponding divine quality of...