Prior Sentence

Famous quotes containing the words prior and/or sentence:

“Odds life! must one swear to the truth of a song?”
—Matthew Prior (1664–1721)

“Every writer is necessarily a critic—that is, each sentence is a skeleton accompanied by enormous activity of rejection; and each selection is governed by general principles concerning truth, force, beauty, and so on.... The critic that is in every fabulist is like the iceberg—nine-tenths of him is under water.”
—Thornton Wilder (1897–1975)