Flour/composition

Famous quotes containing the words flour and/or composition:

“I wol bistowe the flour of al myn age
In th’actes and in fruit of mariage.”
—Geoffrey Chaucer (1340?–1400)

“Pushkin’s composition is first of all and above all a phenomenon of style, and it is from this flowered rim that I have surveyed its seep of Arcadian country, the serpentine gleam of its imported brooks, the miniature blizzards imprisoned in round crystal, and the many-hued levels of literary parody blending in the melting distance.”
—Vladimir Nabokov (1899–1977)