Gradually Varied Function

Famous quotes containing the words gradually, varied and/or function:

    “The sleek, expensive girls I teach,
    Younger and pinker every year,
    Bloom gradually out of reach.”
    —William Dewitt Snodgrass (b. 1926)

    “See, Winter comes, to rule the varied year,
    Sullen, and sad, with all his rising train;
    Vapours, and clouds, and storms. Be these my theme,
    These, that exalt the soul to solemn thought,
    And heavenly musing. Welcome, kindred glooms!
    Congenial horrors, hail!”
    —James Thomson (1700–1748)

    “The function of literature, through all its mutations, has been to make us aware of the particularity of selves, and the high authority of the self in its quarrel with its society and its culture. Literature is in that sense subversive.”
    —Lionel Trilling (1905–1975)