Quotes on Capers

My sole recreations consist in dancing English hornpipes and cutting capers. Italy is a land of sleep; I am always drowsy here.

Grim-visaged war hath smoothed his wrinkled front; _x000D_ _x000D_ And now, instead of mounting barbed steeds _x000D_ _x000D_ To fright the souls of fearful adversaries, _x000D_ _x000D_ He capers nimbly in a lady's chamber _x000D_ _x000D_ To the lascivious pleasing of a lute.

Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world.

If poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world, science fiction writers are its court jesters. We are Wise Fools who can leap, caper, utter prophecies, and scratch ourselves in public. We can play with Big Ideas because the garish motley of our pulp origins make us seem harmless.

We that are true lovers run into strange capers; but as all is mortal in nature, so is all nature in love mortal in folly.

He capers, he dances, he has eyes of youth, he writes verses, he speaks holiday, he smells April and May.

We that are true lovers run into strange capers.