Famous quotes containing the words word and/or order:
“A poet who makes use of a worse word instead of a better, because the former fits the rhyme or the measure, though it weakens the sense, is like a jeweller, who cuts a diamond into a brilliant, and diminishes the weight to make it shine more.”
—Horace Walpole (1717–1797)
“I have forced myself to contradict myself in order to avoid conforming to my own taste.”
—Marcel Duchamp (1887–1968)