Saturday, May 21, 2011

A sacred repository

In writing are the roots, in writing are the foundations of eloquence; by writing resources are stored up, as it were, in a sacred repository, when they may be drawn forth for sudden emergencies, or as circumstances require.

Quintilian. "Institutes of Oratory." The Rhetorical Tradition: Readings from Classical Times to the Present. 1st Edition. Eds. Patricia Bizzell and Bruce Herzberg. Boston: Bedford Books of St. Martin's Press, 1990. Print. 338.

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