Famous quotes containing the words imitation and/or pearls:
“Nature is commonplace. Imitation is more interesting.”
—Gertrude Stein (1874–1946)
“Or else I thought her supernatural;
As though a sterner eye looked through her eye
On this foul world in its decline and fall,
On gangling stocks grown great, great stocks run dry,
Ancestral pearls all pitched into a sty,
Heroic reverie mocked by clown and knave....”
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)