Famous quotes containing the words written, laurence and/or marks:
“Since I know nothing of the merits of poetry, I am not able to pass any opinion upon this, but I can see that reap and deep, prayers and bears, ark and dark, true and grew do rhyme, and so I suppose it is a splendid effort, but if you had written it in plain prose, I could have understood it a great deal better and read it a great deal more easily.”
—Susan B. Anthony (18201906)
“We sing, but oh the clay is vile
Beneath our feet, and long the mile;
But let the world dream otherwise,
We wear the mask!”
—Paul Laurence Dunbar (18721906)
“I open with a clock striking, to beget an awful attention in the audienceit also marks the time, which is four oclock in the morning, and saves a description of the rising sun, and a great deal about gilding the eastern hemisphere.”
—Richard Brinsley Sheridan (17511816)