Famous quotes containing the words air, force and/or station:
“With your air indifferent and imperious
At a stroke our mad poetics to confute
AndAre we then so serious?”
—T.S. (Thomas Stearns)
“The torment of human frustration, whatever its immediate cause, is the knowledge that the self is in prison, its vital force and mangled mind leaking away in lonely, wasteful self-conflict.”
—Elizabeth Drew (18871965)
“I introduced her to Elena, and in that life-quickening atmosphere of a big railway station where everything is something trembling on the brink of something else, thus to be clutched and cherished, the exchange of a few words was enough to enable two totally dissimilar women to start calling each other by their pet names the very next time they met.”
—Vladimir Nabokov (18991977)
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