Fine Mess

Famous quotes containing the words fine and/or mess:

    “Poetry is, above all, an approach to the truth of feeling.... A fine poem will seize your imagination intellectually—that is, when you reach it, you will reach it intellectually too— but the way is through emotion, through what we call feeling.”
    —Muriel Rukeyser (1913–1980)

    “Our passions do not live apart in locked chambers but dress in their small wardrobe of notions, bring their provisions to a common table and mess together, feeding out of the common store according to their appetite.”
    —George Eliot [Mary Ann (or Marian)