Famous quotes containing the words simple and/or pole:
“Literary gentlemen, editors, and critics think that they know how to write, because they have studied grammar and rhetoric; but they are egregiously mistaken. The art of composition is as simple as the discharge of a bullet from a rifle, and its masterpieces imply an infinitely greater force behind them.”
—Henry David Thoreau (18171862)
“O, withered is the garland of the war,
The soldiers pole is fallen!”
—William Shakespeare (15641616)
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