1.
Is it not in the most absolute simplicity that real genius plies its pinions the most wonderfully?
E. T. A. Hoffmann
2.
The aim of poetry and the poet is finally to be of service, to ply the effort of the individual into the larger work of the community as a whole.
Seamus Heaney
3.
The only free mind is one that, pure of all intimacy with beings or objects, plies its own vacuity.
Emile M. Cioran
4.
All men of conscience or prudence ply to windward, to maintain their wars to be defensive.
Roger Williams
5.
Wine it is the milk of Venus, And the poet's horse accounted: Ply it and you all are mounted.
Ben Jonson
6.
I suddenly feel a vague pity for all those writers who have to ply their trade from sleepy American suburbs, writing divorce scenes symbolized by the very slow washing of dishes.
Teju Cole
7.
Peace was the third emotion. Love. Hate. Peace. Three emotions made the ply of human life.
Virginia Woolf
8.
I prefer musicals, because I am the best dancer who ever lived. The best plies, the best sashays, and by far the best-smelling Capezios.
Adam Sandler