Acrobat Elements

Famous quotes containing the words acrobat and/or elements:

“Constantly risking absurdity and death whenever he performs above the heads of his audience the poet like an acrobat climbs on rime to a high wire of his own making.”
—Lawrence Ferlinghetti (b. 1919)

“But all subsists by elemental strife;
And Passions are the elements of Life.”
—Alexander Pope (1688–1744)