Famous quotes containing the words action, figure and/or lines:
“Suit the action to the word, the word to the action, with this special observance, that you o’erstep not the modesty of nature.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
“I saw the figure 5
in gold
on a red
firetruck”
—William Carlos Williams (1883–1963)
“Sweet fire the sire of muse, my soul needs this;
I want the one rapture of an inspiration.
O then if in my lagging lines you miss”
—Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844–1889)