Famous quotes containing the word rhetorical:
“Whoever inquires about our childhood wants to know something about our soul. If the question is not just a rhetorical one and the questioner has the patience to listen, he will come to realize that we love with horror and hate with an inexplicable love whatever caused us our greatest pain and difficulty.”
—Erika Burkart (20th century)
“I come from a place that likes grandeur; it likes large gestures; it is not inhibited by flourish; it is a rhetorical society; it is a society of physical performance; it is a society of style.”
—Derek Walcott (b. 1930)
“Art has always been thispure interrogation, rhetorical question less the rhetoricwhatever else it may have been obliged by social reality to appear.”
—Samuel Beckett (19061989)
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