Letter Writing

Famous quotes containing the words letter and/or writing:

    “Shears: You mean, you intend to uphold the letter of the law, no matter what it costs?
    Colonel Nicholson: Without law, Commander, there is no civilization.
    Shears: That’s just my point. Here, there is no civilization.
    Colonel Nicholson: Then perhaps we have the opportunity to introduce it.”
    —Michael Wilson (1914–1978)

    “Poetry has no goal other than itself; it can have no other, and no poem will be so great, so noble, so truly worthy of the name of poem, than one written uniquely for the pleasure of writing a poem.”
    —Charles Baudelaire (1821–1867)