Famous quotes containing the words high, frequency and/or words:
“I hate that which we have decided to call realism, even though I have been made one of its high priests.”
—Gustave Flaubert (1821–1880)
“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 one’s theme, it needs no translation into art, the bold statement of it being sufficient.”
—Rebecca West (1892–1983)
“We have the words in our pockets,
obscure directions. The old ones
have taken away the light of their presence....”
—Denise Levertov (b. 1923)