Famous quotes containing the words plain, text and/or characters:
““One ought not to be thrown into confusion
By a plain statement of relationship....””
—Robert Frost (1874–1963)
“I would define the poetic effect as the capacity that a text displays for continuing to generate different readings, without ever being completely consumed.”
—Umberto Eco (b. 1932)
“It is open to question whether the highly individualized characters we find in Shakespeare are perhaps not detrimental to the dramatic effect. The human being disappears to the same degree as the individual emerges.”
—Franz Grillparzer (1791–1872)