Preferred Judging Function

Famous quotes containing the words preferred, judging and/or function:

    “You preferred it to the usual thing:
    One dull man, dulling and uxorious,
    One average mind—with one thought less, each year.”
    —Ezra Pound (1885–1972)

    “But judging by what little of it stands,
    Not even the ingenuities of debt
    Could save it from its losses being met.”
    —Robert Frost (1874–1963)

    “The function of literature, through all its mutations, has been to make us aware of the particularity of selves, and the high authority of the self in its quarrel with its society and its culture. Literature is in that sense subversive.”
    —Lionel Trilling (1905–1975)