Laurence Marks

Famous quotes containing the words laurence and/or marks:

    “Lay me down beneaf de willers in de grass,
    Whah de branch’ll go a-singin’ as it pass.”
    —Paul Laurence Dunbar (1872–1906)

    “It has come to be practically a sort of rule in literature, that a man, having once shown himself capable of original writing, is entitled thenceforth to steal from the writings of others at discretion. Thought is the property of him who can entertain it; and of him who can adequately place it. A certain awkwardness marks the use of borrowed thoughts; but, as soon as we have learned what to do with them, they become our own.”
    —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)