Famous quotes containing the word grasp:
“So I will not go on shouting as once I did: Fate, Fate! It’s no use revering it merely as Fate, we must look at it, grasp it, and destroy it.”
—Alfred Döblin (1878–1957)
“Listen to any musical phrase or rhythm, and grasp it as a whole, and you thereupon have present in you the image, so to speak, of the divine knowledge of the temporal order.”
—Josiah Royce (1855–1916)
“We have today and I could call their name
Who know exactly what is out of joint
To make their verse and their excuses lame.
They’ve tried to grasp with too much social fact
Too large a situation.”
—Robert Frost (1874–1963)
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