Famous quotes containing the words stevens and/or plurality:
“The sea
Severs not only lands but also selves.”
—Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)
“Treating ‘water’ as a name of a single scattered object is not intended to enable us to dispense with general terms and plurality of reference. Scatter is in fact an inconsequential detail.”
—Willard Van Orman Quine (b. 1908)