Poet Quotes and aphorisms about tendency Ralph Waldo Emerson Thomas Babington Macaulay Lord Byron Sidney Lanier Sidney Lanier ,, I have frequently noticed in myself a tendency to a diffuse style; a disposition to push my metapho... Edwin Markham Tony Harrison Natasha Trethewey ,, I know that my tendency is to be linear, and I'm trying to find ways to subvert that. And so in 'Be...