Single Convention

Famous quotes containing the words single and/or convention:

“How clever you are, my dear! You never mean a single word you say.”
—Oscar Wilde (1854–1900)

“No good poetry is ever written in a manner twenty years old, for to write in such a manner shows conclusively that the writer thinks from books, convention and cliché, not from real life.”
—Ezra Pound (1885–1972)