Famous quotes containing the words assign, drive and/or letters:
“Who would dare assign to art the sterile function of imitating nature?”
—Charles Baudelaire (1821–1867)
“For one heat, all know, doth drive out another, One passion doth expel another still.”
—George Chapman (c. 1559–1634)
“It is hard to believe that England is so near as from your letters it appears; and that this identical piece of paper has lately come all the way from there hither, begrimed with the English dust which made you hesitate to use it; from England, which is only historical fairyland to me, to America, which I have put my spade into, and about which there is no doubt.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)