Famous quotes containing the words rough, guide and/or books:
“This luxury of the precocious child,
Time’s precious chronic invalid,—
would we, darlings, resign it if we could?
Our blight has been our sinecure:
mere talent was enough for us—
glitter in fragments and rough drafts.”
—Adrienne Rich (b. 1929)
“All torment, trouble, wonder, and amazement
Inhabits here. Some heavenly power guide us
Out of this fearful country!”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
“The society would permit no books of fiction in its collection because the town fathers believed that fiction ‘worketh abomination and maketh a lie.’”
—For the State of Rhode Island, U.S. public relief program (1935-1943)