The great work must inevitably be obscure, except to the very few, to those who like the author himself are initiated into the mysteries. Communication then is secondary: it is perpetuation which is important. For this only one good reader is necessary. View quotes by Henry Miller
The obscure we see eventually. The completely obvious, it seems, takes longer. View quotes by Ed Murrow
You - poor and obscure, and small and plain as you are - I entreat to accept me as a husband. View quotes by Charlotte Bronte
Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes, our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead. Tradition refuses to submit to that arrogant oligarchy who merely happen to be walking around. View quotes by Gilbert Keith Chesterton
It was because of him [John Peel] I got to hear some of the most obscure but influential music I ever heard. View quotes by James Dean Bradfield
