Famous quotes containing the words grand and/or prism:
“The grand style is available now only in old poems, museums, and parodies.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)
“Neither can I do anything to please critics belonging to the good old school of “projected biography,” who examine an author’s work, which they do not understand, through the prism of his life, which they do not know.”
—Vladimir Nabokov (1899–1977)