Abstract

Famous quotes containing the word abstract:

    ““If our minds could get hold of one abstract truth, they would be immortal so far as that truth is concerned. My trouble is to find out how we can get hold of the truth at all.””
    —Henry Brooks Adams (1838–1918)

    “Alice grown lazy, mammoth but not fat,
    Declines upon her lost and twilight age;
    Above in the dozing leaves the grinning cat
    Quivers forever with his abstract rage....”
    —Allen Tate (1899–1979)

    “Every concrete object
    has abstract value, is timeless
    in the dream parallel.”
    —Hilda Doolittle (1886–1961)