crudities quotes

Ialwayssay that my west window has all the exuberance of Chaucer without, happily, any of the concomitant crudities of his period.

- Robert Hamer
  Kind Hearts and Coronets (with  John Dighton).

These poems, with all their crudities, doubts, and confusions, are written for the love of Man, and in praise of God, and I'd be a damn'fool if they weren't.

- Dylan Marlais Thomas
  Collected Poems, author's note.