Famous quotes containing the words visual, blind and/or bidding:
“To write well, to have style ... is to paint. The master faculty of style is therefore the visual memory. If a writer does not see what he describescountrysides and figures, movements and gestureshow could he have a style, that is originality?”
—Rémy De Gourmont (18581915)
“Who is at my window, who, who?
Its the blind cuckoo, mulling
the old song over.
The old song is about fear, about
tomorrow and next year.
Timor mortis conturbat me, he sings....”
—Denise Levertov (b. 1923)
“A simple and independent mind does not toil at the bidding of any prince.”
—Henry David Thoreau (18171862)
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