“You will never be alone with a poet in your pocket.”

— John Adams, Letter to John Quincy Adams (14 May 1781)

About John Adams

1735 – 1826

Second President of the United States and a leading figure of the American Revolution.

“There is, in the human breast, a social affection, which extends to our whole species.”

“Education makes a greater difference between man and man, than nature has made between man and brute.”

“A pen is certainly an excellent instrument to fix a man's attention and to inflame his ambition.”

“If music be the food of love, play on.”

“Beauty is the mark God sets upon virtue.”

“If eyes were made for seeing, then beauty is its own excuse for being.”

“The chief forms of beauty are order and symmetry and definiteness.”

“Homer has taught all other poets the art of telling lies skillfully.”

“Life imitates art far more than art imitates Life.”