“Nothing could be more inappropriate to American literature than its English source since the Americans are not British in sensibility.”
Wallace Stevens
“I might not this believeWithout the sensible and true avouchOf mine own eyes.”
William Shakespeare
“No good opera plot can be sensible, for people do not sing when they are feeling sensible.”
W. H. Auden
“You should not have taken advantage of my sensibility to steal into my affections without my consent.”
Alexander Hamilton
“Provoking, isn't it? that when one is most in need of sensible words, one finds them not.”
Charlotte L. Forten Grimke
“What I mean by objectivity is not the objectivity of a machine, but of a sensible human being with the mystery of personal selection at the heart of it. The second challenge has been to impose order onto the things seen and to supply the visual context and the intellectual framework - that to me is the art of photography.”
Berenice Abbott
“Stepping into the spotlight to admit your guilt is probably not a sensible course for most people sharing music files online.”
Wendy Seltzer
