Famous quotes containing the words direct and/or sunlight:
“James’s great gift, of course, was his ability to tell a plot in shimmering detail with such delicacy of treatment and such fine aloofness—that is, reluctance to engage in any direct grappling with what, in the play or story, had actually “taken place”Mthat his listeners often did not, in the end, know what had, to put it in another way, “gone on.””
—James Thurber (1894–1961)
“The sunlight on the garden
Hardens and grows cold,
We cannot cage the minute
Within its nets of gold,”
—Louis MacNeice (1907–1963)
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