Famous quotes containing the words polish and/or border:
“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)
“Liberal hopefulness
Regards death as a mere border to an improving picture.”
—William Empson (1906–1984)