Notion

Famous quotes containing the word notion:

    This is just a footnote, though a microcosmic one perhaps, to the greater curve
    Of the elaboration; it asks no place in it, only insertion hors-texte as the invisible notion of how that day grew
    From planisphere to heaven, and what part in it all the “I” had, the insatiable researcher of learned trivia, bookworm ...
    John Ashbery (b. 1927)

    San Francisco is where gay fantasies come true, and the problem the city presents is whether, after all, we wanted these particular dreams to be fulfilled—or would we have preferred others? Did we know what price these dreams would exact? Did we anticipate the ways in which, vivid and continuous, they would unsuit us for the business of daily life? Or should our notion of daily life itself be transformed?
    Edmund White (b. 1940)

    The notion of some infinitely gentle
    Infinitely suffering thing.
    —T.S. (Thomas Stearns)