Plain Writing

Famous quotes containing the words plain and/or writing:

“When first my lines of heavenly joys made mention,
Such was their luster, they did so excel,
That I sought out quaint words and trim invention;
My thoughts began to burnish, sprout, and swell,
Curling with metaphors a plain intention,
Decking the sense as if it were to sell.”
—George Herbert (1593–1633)

“All writing comes by the grace of God, and all doing and having.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)