Proper List

Famous quotes containing the words proper and/or list:

    “Never trust the artist. Trust the tale. The proper function of the critic is to save the tale from the artist who created it.”
    —D.H. (David Herbert)

    “Religious literature has eminent examples, and if we run over our private list of poets, critics, philanthropists and philosophers, we shall find them infected with this dropsy and elephantiasis, which we ought to have tapped.”
    —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)