La poe¤  sie veutquelque chose d'e¤  norme, debarbare et de sauvage. Poetry needs something on the scale of the grand, the barbarous, the savage.

-Diderot, Denis
  Discours sur la poe¤  sie dramatique.

Motels can be big, but never grand.

-Heat-Moon,William Least originally  WilliamTrogdon
  Blue Highways:  A  Journey Into  America.

Writing a book of poetry is like dropping a rose petal down the Grand Canyon and waiting for the echo.

-Marquis, Don(ald Robert Perry)
Quoted in E  Anthony O Rare Don Marquis (1962), ch.6.

The grand manner consists of four elements: subject or theme, concept, structure, and style. The first requirement, fundamental to all the others, is that the subject and the narrative be grandiose, such as battles, heroic actions, and religious themes.

-Poussin, Nicolas
Quoted in Giovanni Pietro Bellori Lives of the Modern Painters (1672).