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)