Famous quotes containing the words role and/or filled:
“Such is the role of poetry. It unveils, in the strict sense of the word. It lays bare, under a light which shakes off torpor, the surprising things which surround us and which our senses record mechanically.”
—Jean Cocteau (1889–1963)
“The mind can be but full. It will be as much filled with a small disagreeable occurrence, having no other, as with a large one.”
—Samuel Richardson (1689–1761)