Obscurity Quotes

Do you think, because I am poor, obscure, plain and little, I am soulless and heartless? You think w...

This poem has been called obscure. I refuse to believe that it is obscurer than pity, violence, or s...

I give the fight up let there be an end A privacy an obscure nook for me I want to be forgotten ...

If I could I would always work in silence and obscurity, and let my efforts be known by their result...

Those who know that they are profound strive for clarity. Those who would like to seem profound to t...

Twofold misjudgement. - The misfortune suffered by clear-minded and easily understood writers is tha...

We are accustomed to repeating the cliché, and to believing, that 'our most precious resource is our...

Notoriety wasn't as good as fame, but was heaps better than obscurity.

How many a rustic Milton has passed by Stifling the speechless longings of his heart In unremitting...

I would rather be attacked than unnoticed. For the worst thing you can do to an author is to be sile...

For instance? Well, for instance, what it means to be a man. In a city. In a century. In transition....

Full many a flower is born to blush unseen And waste its sweetness on the desert air.

While fame impedes and constricts, obscurity wraps about a man like a mist; obscurity is dark, ample...

Before people complain of the obscurity of modern poetry, they should first examine their conscience...

Thus let me live unseen unknown Thus unlamented let me die Steal from the world and not a stone...

How happy is the blameless vestal's lot! The world forgetting by the world forgot.