Famous quotes containing the words air, task and/or force:
“subtle birds
Wheel and go,leaving air in shreds
black beaks shine in gray haze.
Brushed by the hawks wing
of vision.”
—Gary Snyder (b. 1930)
“To write weekly, to write daily, to write shortly, to write for busy people catching trains in the morning or for tired people coming home in the evening, is a heartbreaking task for men who know good writing from bad. They do it, but instinctively draw out of harms way anything precious that might be damaged by contact with the public, or anything sharp that might irritate its skin.”
—Virginia Woolf (18821941)
“Happiness aint a thing in itselfits only a contrast with something that aint pleasant.... And so, as soon as the novelty is over and the force of the contrast dulled, it aint happiness any longer, and you have to get something fresh.”
—Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (18351910)