Helps Achieve Perfection

Famous quotes containing the words helps, achieve and/or perfection:

    Though seen but once, it helps to wash out State Street and the engine’s soot.
    Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    Perceiving myself through others’ ideas of what it means to be a woman has made it difficult for me to achieve the necessary commitment [to be a poet].
    Naomi Clark (b. 1932)

    Ignorance is the first requisite of the historian—ignorance, which simplifies and clarifies, which selects and omits, with a placid perfection unattainable by the highest art.
    Lytton Strachey (1880–1932)