My country has contrived for me the most insignificant office that ever the invention of man contrived or his imagination conceived.
John Adams
A poem with grandly conceived and executed stanzas, such as one of Keats's odes, should be like an enfilade of rooms in a palace: one proceeds... →
James Fenton
Stravinsky is masterly: his harmony is conceived so precisely that it can only be the way it is.
Esa-Pekka Salonen
Whatsoever is, is in God, and without God nothing can be, or be conceived.
Baruch Spinoza
He who is conceived in a cage yearns for the cage.
Yevgeny Yevtushenko
I have written some of the clumsiest, most clogged-yet-vagrant, hobbledehoyish, hitch-slipping sentences ever conceived by the human mind.
Roy Blount, Jr.