Famous quotes containing the words diminished and/or scale:
“Obscurantism is the academic theorists revenge on society for having consigned him or her to relative obscuritya way of proclaiming ones superiority in the face of ones diminished influence.”
—David Lehman (b. 1948)
“The poet is the person in whom these powers are in balance, the man without impediment, who sees and handles that which others dream of, traverses the whole scale of experience, and is representative of man, in virtue of being the largest power to receive and to impart.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (18031882)