473 Quotes About Description

Venecijanske zgrade su nosile pečate od kamena, kao što pisma nose pečate od voska. U njima su bile izvajane figure. Na jednoj, orao je sedeo na magarcu i kljuvao ga. Na drugoj, grifon je jeo orla. -Oni se proždiru- zaključio je posetilac.

... like an entirely cloudless sky when one is going mountaineering...

... washed clean like a porcelain, with housewifely care...

... with a quiet suggestion of infinity...

Mirabelle sat down, dropping into the cushions like a ball being caught in a large leather glove.


a constant repetition and a boundless incongruity of useless but indestructible objects.

She had something that is gone from the world, from the female world. A sweetness without sentimentality, a limpidity without naivety. She was so easy to hurt, to tease. And when she teased, it was like a caress.

Wings of a half finished book across his chest.

If, however, the poetic end might have been as well or better attained without sacrifice of technical correctness in such matters, the impossibility is not to be justified, since the description should be, if it can, entirely free from error.