It hardly seems worthwhile to point out the shortsightedness of those practitioners who would have us believe that the form of the poem is merely its... →
Mark Strand
The very ink with which history is written is merely fluid prejudice.
Mark Twain
Wrinkles should merely indicate where smiles have been.
Noise proves nothing. Often a hen who has merely laid an egg cackles as if she laid an asteroid.
The Public is merely a multiplied 'me.'
The speed of light does not merely transform the world. It becomes the world. Globalization is the speed of light.
Paul Virilio
It is very vulgar to talk about one's business. Only people like stockbrokers do that, and then merely at dinner parties.
John Wanamaker
Nothing comes merely by thinking about it.
We are merely the stars tennis-balls, struck and bandied which way please them.
John Webster
The role of the intelligence - that part of us which affirms and denies and formulates opinions is merely to submit.
Simone Weil