Famous quotes containing the words ordinary and/or state:
“Art is not tame, and Nature is not wild, in the ordinary sense. A perfect work of mans art would also be wild or natural in a good sense.”
—Henry David Thoreau (18171862)
“The drama is complete poetry. The ode and the epic contain it only in germ; it contains both of them in a state of high development, and epitomizes both.”
—Victor Hugo (18021885)