Essences Quotes

• One function, at least, of true wilderness is to provide a refuge from the crassitudes of civilization-whether visible, intangible, audible-whether of billboard, of pavement, of auto horn-all of these are urban essences; all are negations of wilderness.

  

  Benton MacKaye
  • Function
  • Wilderness
  • Pavement

• Martin Williams persistently gets at essences, and that is why he has contributed so much to the very small body of authentic jazz criticism.

  

  Nat Hentoff
  • Criticism
  • Jazz
  • Contributed

• “If the impress on the imagination is that of a high poetic form it is not because the poetry is 'allegorically' imposed on the stuff, but because the stuff is allowed to render up its own poetic essences.”

  

  Newton Arvin
  • Poetry
  • Stuff
  • Essences