Possession

Famous quotes containing the word possession:

“Who hears me, who understands me, becomes mine,—a possession for all time.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

“Musick is certainly a very agreeable Entertainment, but if it would take the entire Possession of our Ears, if it would make us incapable of hearing Sense, if it would exclude Arts that have a much greater Tendency to the Refinement of human Nature; I must confess I would allow it no better Quarter than Plato has done, who banishes it out of his Common-wealth.”
—Joseph Addison (1672–1719)

“For a creative writer possession of the “truth” is less important than emotional sincerity.”
—George Orwell (1903–1950)