Style Iron Columns

Famous quotes containing the words style, iron and/or columns:

    “I shall christen this style the Mandarin, since it is beloved by literary pundits, by those who would make the written word as unlike as possible to the spoken one. It is the style of all those writers whose tendency is to make their language convey more than they mean or more than they feel, it is the style of most artists and all humbugs.”
    —Cyril Connolly (1903–1974)

    “... hurled religiously
    Upon your business of humility
    Into the iron forestries of hell....”
    —Allen Tate (1899–1979)

    “We are a race of tit-men, and soar but little higher in our intellectual flights than the columns of the daily paper.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)