Deadly Physical Force

Famous quotes containing the words deadly, physical and/or force:

“All that a critic, as critic, can give poets is the deadly encouragement that never ceases to remind them of how heavy their inheritance is.”
—Harold Bloom (b. 1930)

“Hemingway is great in that alone of living writers he has saturated his work with the memory of physical pleasure, with sunshine and salt water, with food, wine and making love and the remorse which is the shadow of that sun.”
—Cyril Connolly (1903–1974)

“Rhyme and meter force gaps in meaning so the muse can enter.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)