Lesser Polish

Famous quotes containing the words lesser and/or polish:

    I
    Am here a Poet, that doth drink of life
    As lesser men drink wine.
    Ezra Pound (1885–1972)

    It has always been my practice to cast a long paragraph in a single mould, to try it by my ear, to deposit it in my memory, but to suspend the action of the pen till I had given the last polish to my work.
    Edward Gibbon (1737–1794)