Famous quotes containing the words frequency, selective and/or fading:
“One is apt to be discouraged by the frequency with which Mr. Hardy has persuaded himself that a macabre subject is a poem in itself; that, if there be enough of death and the tomb in ones theme, it needs no translation into art, the bold statement of it being sufficient.”
—Rebecca West (18921983)
“The selective memory isnt selective enough.”
—Blake Morrison (b. 1950)
“Opinion is not worth a rush;
In this altar-piece the knight,
Who grips his long spear so to push
That dragon through the fading light,
Loved the lady; and its plain
The half-dead dragon was her thought....”
—William Butler Yeats (18651939)
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