Slightly Vulgar Slang

Famous quotes containing the words slightly, vulgar and/or slang:

    “Inscrutable His ways are, and immune
    To catechism by a mind too strewn
    With petty cares to slightly understand
    What awful brain compels His awful hand.
    Yet do I marvel at this curious thing;
    To make a poet black, and bid him sing!”
    —Countee Cullen (1903–1946)

    “Great statesmen seem to direct and rule by a sort of power to put themselves in the place of the nation over which they are set, and may thus be said to possess the souls of poets at the same time they display the coarser sense and the more vulgar sagacity of practical men of business.”
    —Woodrow Wilson (1856–1924)

    “All slang is metaphor, and all metaphor is poetry.”
    —Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1874–1936)