Subject/people

Famous quotes containing the words subject and/or people:

“One is apt to be discouraged by the frequency with which Mr. Hardy has persuaded himself that a macabre subject is a poem in itself; that, if there be enough of death and the tomb in one’s theme, it needs no translation into art, the bold statement of it being sufficient.”
—Rebecca West (1892–1983)

“A people so individual in its genius, so tenacious in love or hate, so captivating in its nobler moods.”
—F.E. (Frederick Edwin)