Famous quotes containing the words independent, speech and/or recognition:
“Miltons the prince of poetsso we say;
A little heavy, but no less divine:
An independent being in his day”
—George Gordon Noel Byron (17881824)
“It is povertys speech that seeks us out the most.
It is older than the oldest speech of Rome.
This is the tragic accent of the scene.”
—Wallace Stevens (18791955)
“Tragedy, as you know, is always a fait accompli, whereas terror always has to do with anticipation, with mans recognition of his own negative potentialwith his sense of what he is capable of.”
—Joseph Brodsky (b. 1940)
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