Famous quotes containing the words high, frequency and/or words:
“Esteem must be founded on preference: to hold everyone in high esteem is to esteem nothing.”
—Molière [Jean Baptiste Poquelin] (16221673)
“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 ones theme, it needs no translation into art, the bold statement of it being sufficient.”
—Rebecca West (18921983)
“Malcolms words
fire darts, the victors tireless
thrusts, words hung above the world
change as it may, he said it, and
for this he was killed,”
—Imamu Amiri Baraka (b. 1934)