There are men who can write poetry, and there are men who can read balance sheets. The men who can read balance sheets cannot write.

It's easier to teach a poet how to read a balance sheet than it is to teach an accountant how to write.

There are men who can write poetry, and there are men who can read balance sheets. The men who can read balance sheets cannot write.

Of necessity, we made the discovery that it is easier to turn poets into business journalists than to turn bookkeepers into writers.

I suggest that what we want to do is not to leave to posterity a great institution, but to leave behind a great tradition of journalism ably practiced in our time.

Journalism is the art of collecting varying kinds of information (commonly called news) which a few people possess and of transmitting it to a much larger number of people who are supposed to desire to share it.

To see, and to show, is the mission now undertaken by Life.