Famous quotes containing the words air, task and/or force:
“It is true that the rivers went nosing like swine,
Tugging at banks, until they seemed
Bland belly-sounds in somnolent troughs,
That the air was heavy with the breath of these swine,
The breath of turgid summer, and
Heavy with thunders rattapallax....”
—Wallace Stevens (18791955)
“When the theater gates open, a mob pours inside, and it is the poets task to turn it into an audience.”
—Franz Grillparzer (17911872)
“We are to have a tiny party here tonight; I hate tiny
partiesthey force one into constant exertion.”
—Jane Austen (17751817)