Famous quotes containing the word ultimate:
“The earth is mankinds ultimate haven, our blessed terra firma. When it trembles and gives way beneath our feet, its as though one of Gods cheques has bounced.”
—Gilbert Adair, British author, critic. quoted in: London Sunday Correspondent Magazine (Dec. 24, 1989)
“The ultimate end of your education was to make you a good wife.”
—Mary Wortley, Lady Montagu (16891762)
“... the attempt to control poetry, to subordinate it to extrapoetic ends, constitutes misuse.... it may be poetrys stubborn quality of rockbottom, intrinsic uselessness which ... constitutes the guarantee of its integrity, and hence of its ultimate value to us.”
—Jan Clausen (b. 1943)
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