Famous quotes containing the words declension and/or latin:
“And from the first declension of the flesh
I learnt mans tongue, to twist the shapes of thoughts
Into the stony idiom of the brain....”
—Dylan Thomas (19141953)
“He tries by a peculiar speech to speak
The peculiar potency of the general,
To compound the imaginations Latin with
The lingua franca et jocundissima.”
—Wallace Stevens (18791955)
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