Omitted Category

Famous quotes containing the words omitted and/or category:

“Histories of the world omitted China; if a Chinaman invented compass or movable type or gunpowder we promptly “forgot it” and named their European inventors. In short, we regarded China as a sort of different and quite inconsequential planet.”
—W.E.B. (William Edward Burghardt)

“I see no reason for calling my work poetry except that there is no other category in which to put it.”
—Marianne Moore (1887–1972)