Break Quote by Robert Graves

I believe that every English poet should read the English classics, master the rules of grammar before he attempts to bend or break them,…

— Robert Graves

The poet is a master of language, the schizophrenic is a slave to it.

— Hilde Bruch

“I don't know the rules of grammar. If you're trying to persuade people to do something, or buy something, it seems to me you…

— David Ogilvy

I never actually learned the rules of grammar, relying instead only on what sounded right.

— Joan Didion

No one complains of the rules of Grammar as fettering Language; because it is understood that correct use is not founded on Grammar, but…

— Richard Whately

The rules of grammar exist in large part to permit readers and writers to operate from a shared set of expectations.

— Michael Crichton

He who writes must master the rules of grammar. He who shoots photographs needs only to follow the instructions as given by the camera……

— Vilem Flusser

Bad music is the attempt to imitate something that has very strong rules and grammar.

— Carlo Grante

Those that will combat use and custom by the strict rules of grammar do but jest

— Michel de Montaigne

“The rules of grammar are just as important as the rules of engagement in war. Without them, we are barbarians,” I argued.”

— Shayne Silvers

By a generative grammar I mean simply a system of rules that in some explicit and well-defined way assigns structural descriptions to sentences. Obviously,…

— Noam Chomsky

Speakers who have grown up in the American community unconsciously know its rules about taking turns in conversations-in the same way that they know…

— Peter Farb