Ordinary Degrees

Famous quotes containing the words ordinary and/or degrees:

    When the shrivelled skin of the ordinary is stuffed out with meaning, it satisfies the senses amazingly.
    Virginia Woolf (1882–1941)

    Gradually we come to admit that Shakespeare understands a greater extent and variety of human life than Dante; but that Dante understands deeper degrees of degradation and higher degrees of exaltation.
    —T.S. (Thomas Stearns)