Single Definite Article

Famous quotes containing the words single, definite and/or article:

    Great works constructed there in nature’s spite
    For scholars and for poets after us,
    Thoughts long knitted into a single thought,
    A dance-like glory that those walls begot.
    William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)

    Literature does not exist in a vacuum. Writers as such have a definite social function exactly proportional to their ability as writers. This is their main use.
    Ezra Pound (1885–1972)

    Of moral purpose I see no trace in Nature. That is an article of exclusively human manufacture—and very much to our credit.
    Thomas Henry Huxley (1825–95)