Famous quotes containing the words attempt and/or suicide:
“... the attempt to control poetry, to subordinate it to extrapoetic ends, constitutes misuse.... it may be poetry’s 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)
“Science commits suicide when it adopts a creed.”
—Thomas Henry Huxley (1825–95)