Constitutes

Famous quotes containing the word constitutes:

“What would be ugly in a garden constitutes beauty in a mountain.”
—Victor Hugo (1802–1885)

“... the attempt to control poetry, to subordinate it to extrapoetic ends, constitutes misuse.... it may be poetry’s stubborn quality of rockbottom, intrinsic uselessness which ... constitutes the guarantee of its integrity, and hence of its ultimate value to us.”
—Jan Clausen (b. 1943)

“We find many things to which the prohibition of them constitutes the only temptation.”
—William Hazlitt (1778–1830)