Particulars

Famous quotes containing the word particulars:

    Great causes are never tried on their merits; but the cause is reduced to particulars to suit the size of the partizans, and the contention is ever hottest on minor matters.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

    Two things of opposite natures seem to depend
    On one another, as a man depends
    On a woman, day on night, the imagined
    On the real. This is the origin of change.
    Winter and spring, cold copulars, embrace
    And forth the particulars of rapture come.
    Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)