Famous quotes containing the words small, cap and/or completeness:
“A pedestal is as much a prison as any other small space.”
—Anonymous Woman (c. mid1800s)
“I have cap and bells, he pondered,
I will send them to her and die;
And when the morning whitened
He left them where she went by.”
—William Butler Yeats (18651939)
“Poetry presents indivisible wholes of human consciousness, modified and ordered by the stringent requirements of form. Prose, aiming at a definite and concrete goal, generally suppresses everything inessential to its purpose; poetry, existing only to exhibit itself as an aesthetic object, aims only at completeness and perfection of form.”
—Richard Harter Fogle, U.S. critic, educator. The Imagery of Keats and Shelley, ch. 1, University of North Carolina Press (1949)
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