Acquire Merrill

Famous quotes containing the words acquire and/or merrill:

“Chance gives rise to thoughts, and chance removes them; no art can keep or acquire them.”
—Blaise Pascal (1623–1662)

“the sheets and towels of a life we were going to share,
The milk-stiff bibs, the shroud, each rag to be ever
Trampled or soiled, bled on or groped for blindly,
Came swooning out of an enormous willow hamper
Onto moon-marbly boards.”
—James Merrill (b. 1926)