American Convention

Famous quotes containing the words american and/or convention:

“The American people have done much for the locomotive, and the locomotive has done much for them.”
—James A. Garfield (1831–1881)

“No good poetry is ever written in a manner twenty years old, for to write in such a manner shows conclusively that the writer thinks from books, convention and cliché, not from real life.”
—Ezra Pound (1885–1972)