Gilbert Highet
Gilbert Highet
Gilbert Arthur Highetwas a Scottish-American classicist, academic, writer, intellectual, critic and literary historian...
NationalityScottish
ProfessionWriter
Date of Birth22 June 1906
Gilbert Highet quotes about
intimate-conversation dancing needs
Poetry is halfway between prose and music: it is sometimes like an intimate conversation, in words and phrases which need not be fully uttered, and sometimes like dancing and wordless music.
pieces branches bud
Language is a living thing. We can feel it changing. Parts of it become old: they drop off and are forgotten. New pieces bud out, spread into leaves, and become big branches, proliferating.
unattainable demand sincerity
The young do not demand omniscience. They know it is unattainable. They do demand sincerity.