Emphasis Spreading

Famous quotes containing the words emphasis and/or spreading:

“The scholar might frequently emulate the propriety and emphasis of the farmer’s call to his team, and confess that if that were written it would surpass his labored sentences.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

“... less and less of luck, and more and more
Of failure spreading back up the arm
Earlier and earlier ...”
—Philip Larkin (1922–1986)