{"author":"Stephen Crane","author_id":"Stephen+Crane","total_quotes":29,"quotes":[{"text":"It perhaps might be said--if any one dared--that the most worthless literature of the world has been that which has been written by the men of one nation concerning the men of another.","author":"Stephen Crane","tags":["literature","value","writing"],"id":25918,"author_id":"Stephen+Crane"},{"text":"This poor gambler isn’t even a noun. He is kind of an adverb.","author":"Stephen Crane","tags":["humanity","parts-of-speech"],"id":51502,"author_id":"Stephen+Crane"},{"text":"It was wrong to do this,' said the angel.'You should live like a flower,Holding malice like a puppy,Waging war like a lambkin.'Not so,' quoth the manWho had no fear of spirits;'It is only wrong for angelsWho can live like the flowers,Holding malice like the puppies,Waging war like the lambkins.","author":"Stephen Crane","tags":["angel","angels","crane","human","lambkins","wrong"],"id":60837,"author_id":"Stephen+Crane"},{"text":"When the prophet, a complacent fat man,Arrived at the mountain-topHe cried: 'Woe to my knowledge!I intended to see good white landsAnd bad black lands—But the scene is grey.","author":"Stephen Crane","tags":["black","black-and-white","good-and-evil","gray","grey","knowledge","morality","white","wisdom"],"id":69821,"author_id":"Stephen+Crane"},{"text":"Do not weep, maiden, for war is kind.Because your lover threw wild hands toward the sky And the affrighted steed ran on alone, Do not weep.War is kind.Hoarse, booming drums of the regiment, Little souls who thirst for fight, These men were born to drill and die.The unexplained glory flies above them, Great is the battle-god, great, and his kingdom -A field where a thousand corpses lie.Do not weep, babe, for war is kind.","author":"Stephen Crane","tags":["war"],"id":80885,"author_id":"Stephen+Crane"},{"text":"Nevertheless, he had, on a certain star-lit evening, said wonderingly and quite reverently: 'Deh moon looks like hell, don't it?","author":"Stephen Crane","tags":["dark","humor","naturalism"],"id":94592,"author_id":"Stephen+Crane"},{"text":"The maddened four men followed frantically, for it is better to be in the presence of the awful than only within hearing. ('The Black Dog').","author":"Stephen Crane","tags":["awful","hearing","horror"],"id":96230,"author_id":"Stephen+Crane"},{"text":"The injured captain, lying in the bow, was at this time buried in that profound dejection and indifference which comes, temporarily at least, toeven the bravest and most enduring when, willy nilly, the firm fails, the army loses, the ship goes down.","author":"Stephen Crane","tags":["despair","indifference-of-nature","naturalism","open-boat","sea-stories","shipwreck","stephen-crane","survival"],"id":99022,"author_id":"Stephen+Crane"},{"text":"It is perhaps, plausible that a man in this situation, impressed with the unconcern of the universe, should see the innumerable flaws of his life and have them taste wickedly in his mind and wish for another chance.","author":"Stephen Crane","tags":["another-chance","flaws","life","mgg","reflection","stephen-crane","the-open-boat","universe"],"id":116027,"author_id":"Stephen+Crane"},{"text":"Tell her thisAnd more,—That the king of the seasWeeps too, old, helpless man.The bustling fatesHeap his hands with corpsesUntil he stands like a childWith surplus of toys.","author":"Stephen Crane","tags":["death","drowning","king-neptune","neptune","ocean","poseidon","sea","the-ocean","the-sea"],"id":124842,"author_id":"Stephen+Crane"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":29,"pages":3,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}