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His Meaning Quotes by Elwyn Brooks White
- A poet's pleasure is to withhold a little of his meaning, to intensify by mystification. He unzips the veil from beauty, but does not remove…
- A poet dares to be just so clear and no clearer; he approaches lucid ground warily, like a mariner who is determined not to scrape…
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- If I understand Dirac correctly, his meaning is this: there is no God, and Dirac is his Prophet. — Wolfgang Pauli
- Some things mankind can finish and be done with, but not ... science, that persists, and changes from ancient Chaldeans studying the… — Harry Emerson Fosdick
- When two minds of a high order, interested in kindred subjects, come together, their conversation is chiefly remarkable for the summariness of… — William James
- Tobacco smoke is the one element in which, by our European manners, men can sit silent together without embarrassment, and where no… — Thomas Carlyle
- A poet's pleasure is to withhold a little of his meaning, to intensify by mystification. He unzips the veil from beauty, but… — Elwyn Brooks White
- There are those who insist that it is a very bad thing to question God. To them, “why?” is a rude question.… — Elisabeth Elliot
- While he has not, in my hearing, spoken the English language, he makes it perfectly plain that he understands it. And he… — Jean Little
- Quotation... A writer expresses himself in words that have been used before because they give his meaning better than he can give… — Henry Watson Fowler
- A poet dares to be just so clear and no clearer; he approaches lucid ground warily, like a mariner who is determined… — Elwyn Brooks White
- But whether thus submissively or not, at least be sure that you go to the author to get at his meaning, not… — John Ruskin
- Words may show a man's wit but actions his meaning. — Benjamin Franklin
- Be sure that you go to the author to get at his meaning, not to find yours. — Salman Rushdie