Famous quotes containing the words world and/or conventions:
“... this world gives no room
to be what we dreamt of being”
—Adrienne Rich (b. 1929)
“I find nothing healthful or exalting in the smooth conventions of society. I do not like the close air of saloons. I begin to suspect myself to be a prisoner, though treated with all this courtesy and luxury. I pay a destructive tax in my conformity.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)