Famous quotes containing the words sleeping, beauty, plot and/or summary:
“sometimes sleeping in the open
I think backwhen I had you.”
—Gary Snyder (b. 1930)
“I longed to arrest all beauty that came before me, and at length the longing has been satisfied.”
—Julia Margaret Cameron (1815–1879)
“We have defined a story as a narrative of events arranged in their time-sequence. A plot is also a narrative of events, the emphasis falling on causality. “The king died and then the queen died” is a story. “The king died, and then the queen died of grief” is a plot. The time sequence is preserved, but the sense of causality overshadows it.”
—E.M. (Edward Morgan)
“Product of a myriad various minds and contending tongues, compact of obscure and minute association, a language has its own abundant and often recondite laws, in the habitual and summary recognition of which scholarship consists.”
—Walter Pater (1839–1894)