Famous quotes containing the words subject, matter and/or domain:
“One merit in Carlyle, let the subject be what it may, is the freedom of prospect he allows, the entire absence of cant and dogma. He removes many cartloads of rubbish, and leaves open a broad highway. His writings are all unfenced on the side of the future and the possible. Though he does but inadvertently direct our eyes to the open heavens, nevertheless he lets us wander broadly underneath, and shows them to us reflected in innumerable pools and lakes.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“No matter what we see, we don’t see nuthin’, see?”
—Robert Riskin (1897–1955)
“You are the harvest and not the reaper
And of your domain another is the keeper.”
—John Ashbery (b. 1927)