Bowed Instrument

Famous quotes containing the words bowed and/or instrument:

    There are acacias, a graceful species amusingly devitalized by sentimentality, this kind drooping its leaves with the grace of a young widow bowed in controllable grief, this one obscuring them with a smooth silver as of placid tears. They please, like the minor French novelists of the eighteenth century, by suggesting a universe in which nothing cuts deep.
    Rebecca West (1892–1983)

    The great instrument of moral good is the imagination.
    Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792–1822)