Famous quotes containing the words block and/or set:
“The chess pieces are the block alphabet which shapes thoughts; and these thoughts, although making a visual design on the chess-board, express their beauty abstractly, like a poem.... I have come to the personal conclusion that while all artists are not chess players, all chess players are artists.”
—Marcel Duchamp (1887–1968)
“a set of crushed and grease-
impregnated wickerwork;
on the wicker sofa
a dirty dog, quite comfy.”
—Elizabeth Bishop (1911–1979)