"Be direct, simple, brief, vigorous, and lucid."

-- Henry Watson Fowler

#Writing Quotes #Simple Quotes #Editing Quotes

“Mountains are the beginning and the end of all natural scenery.”
“I'm tired of saying "How wonderful you are!" to fool men, who haven't got one half sense I've got.”
“When I do get the chance I just love to hang around at home with friends and family.”
“I will let my body flow like water over the gentle cushions.”

Source : Sappho (2007). “The Poetry of Sappho”, p.16, Oxford University Press
“There is no point where art so nearly touches nature as when it appears in the form of words.”
“All architecture, classical or not, must have some sense of order, and order is much harder to achieve without the straight lines and right angles that have dominated the building art from time immemorial.”
“I like the U.S. and feel gratitude towards it.”
“Is there not a way by which the man who can think can be enabled to have time to think?”

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