Famous quotes containing the words lesser and/or polish:
“The ears of men are lesser agents of belief than their eyes.”
—Herodotus (c. 484–424 B.C.)
“Take a commonplace, clean it and polish it, light it so that it produces the same effect of youth and freshness and originality and spontaneity as it did originally, and you have done a poet’s job. The rest is literature.”
—Jean Cocteau (1889–1963)