Variety

Famous quotes containing the word variety:

    “The best interviews—like the best biographies—should sing the strangeness and variety of the human race.”
    —Lynn Barber (b. 1944)

    “In the tale proper—where there is no space for development of character or for great profusion and variety of incident—mere construction is, of course, far more imperatively demanded than in the novel.”
    —Edgar Allan Poe (1809–1849)

    “A poem is like a person. Though it has a family tree, it is important not because of its ancestors but because of its individuality. The poem, like any human being, is something more than its most complete analysis. Like any human being, it gives a sense of unified individuality which no summary of its qualities can reproduce; and at the same time a sense of variety which is beyond satisfactory final analysis.”
    —Donald Stauffer (b. 1930)