Famous quotes containing the words polish, american, history, early and/or century:
“Take a commonplace, clean it and polish it, light it so that it produces the same effect of youth and freshness and originality and spontaneity as it did originally, and you have done a poet’s job. The rest is literature.”
—Jean Cocteau (1889–1963)
“... his voice and hands,
Within whose warm spring rain of loving care
Each dwells some twenty seconds. Now, dear child,
What’s wrong, the deep American voice demands,
And, scarcely pausing, goes into a prayer
Directing God about this eye, that knee.”
—Philip Larkin (1922–1986)
“It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.”
—Henry James (1843–1916)
“And early in the morning he came walking toward them on the sea.”
—Bible: New Testament, Matthew 14:25.
“They are fools who do not know how much the half exceeds the whole.”
—Hesiod (c. 8th century B.C.)