Famous quotes containing the words grand and/or intellect:
“The grand style is available now only in old poems, museums, and parodies.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)
“Men are conservatives when they are least vigorous, or when they are most luxurious. They are conservatives after dinner, or before taking their rest; when they are sick, or aged: in the morning, or when their intellect or their conscience has been aroused, when they hear music, or when they read poetry, they are radicals.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)