Soft Imperative Form

Famous quotes containing the words soft, imperative and/or form:

    “The soft engravings which adorn the annuals give no idea of a stream in such a wilderness as this.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    “The political core of any movement for freedom in the society has to have the political imperative to protect free speech.”
    —bell hooks (b. 1955)

    “Dug from the tomb of taste-refining time,
    Each form is exquisite, each block sublime.
    Or good, or bad,—disfigur’d, or deprav’d,—
    All art, is at its resurrection sav’d;
    All crown’d with glory in the critic’s heav’n,
    Each merit magnified, each fault forgiven.”
    —Martin Archer, Sir Shee (1769–1850)