Birney/invention

Famous quotes containing the words birney and/or invention:

“owls in the beardusky woods”
—Earle Birney (b. 1904)

“A great man quotes bravely, and will not draw on his invention when his memory serves him with a word as good. What he quotes, he fills with his own voice and humour, and the whole cyclopedia of his table-talk is presently believed to be his own.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)