Famous quotes containing the word arbitrary:
“The Brahman’s virtue consists in doing, not right, but arbitrary things.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“If you should rise from Nowhere up to Somewhere,
From being No one up to being Someone,
Be sure to keep repeating to yourself
You owe it to an arbitrary god....”
—Robert Frost (1874–1963)
“Poetry is a very complex art.... It is an art of pure sound bound in through an art of arbitrary and conventional symbols.”
—Ezra Pound (1885–1972)