delicate quotes

I agree that our methods of control are unlikely to be sufficiently delicate or sufficiently powerful to maintain continuous full employment. I should be quite content with a reasonable approximation to it, and in practice I should probably relax my expansionist measures a little before technical full employment had actually been reached.

-John Maynard, 1st Baron Keynes (of Tilton)
  Letter to E F M Durbin, 30  Apr.

To watch him fumbling with our rich and delicate English language is like seeing a Se'  vres vase in the hands of a chimpanzee.

- Evelyn Arthur StJohn Waugh
Of Sir Stephen Spender. Quoted by Eric Pace in Spender's obituary in the NewYorkTimes,18 Jul1995.

Come lovelyand soothing death, Undulate round the world, serenely arriving, arriving, In the day, in the night, to all, to each, Sooner or later delicate death.

-Walt(er) Whitman
^66  Leaves of Grass,'Memories of President Lincoln','When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd', section14.