Quotes About Grammarians

Women are the simple, and poets the superior, artisans of language... the intervention of grammarians is almost always bad.

There is no enduring emotion without syntax. Immortality depends on the grammarians.

Pay no attention to the criticism of men who have never themselves written a notable work. Consider the discrepancies between the actual writing of the Greek poets and dramatists, and the theories of the Graeco-Roman grammarians, concocted to explain their metres.

Women are the simple, and poets the superior, artisans of language... the intervention of grammarians is almost always bad.