Detail

Famous quotes containing the word detail:

    all to no end save beauty
    the eternal—

    So in detail they, the crowd,
    are beautiful
    William Carlos Williams (1883–1963)

    James’s great gift, of course, was his ability to tell a plot in shimmering detail with such delicacy of treatment and such fine aloofness—that is, reluctance to engage in any direct grappling with what, in the play or story, had actually “taken place”Mthat his listeners often did not, in the end, know what had, to put it in another way, “gone on.”
    James Thurber (1894–1961)