Famous quotes containing the words general, convention and/or held:
“Through the particular, in wartime, I felt the high-voltage current of the general pass.”
—Elizabeth Bowen (1899–1973)
“No good poetry is ever written in a manner twenty years old, for to write in such a manner shows conclusively that the writer thinks from books, convention and cliché, not from real life.”
—Ezra Pound (1885–1972)
“Since long I’ve held silence a remedy for harm.”
—Aeschylus (525–456 B.C.)