Category Materials

Famous quotes containing the words materials and/or category:

“In how few words, for instance, the Greeks would have told the story of Abelard and Heloise, making but a sentence of our classical dictionary.... We moderns, on the other hand, collect only the raw materials of biography and history, “memoirs to serve for a history,” which is but materials to serve for a mythology.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

“I see no reason for calling my work poetry except that there is no other category in which to put it.”
—Marianne Moore (1887–1972)