Famous quotes containing the words bowed and/or instrument:
“And, hungry for the old, familiar ways,
I turned aside and bowed my head and wept.”
—Claude McKay (1889–1948)
“A poet is a combination of an instrument and a human being in one person, with the former gradually taking over the latter. The sensation of this takeover is responsible for timbre; the realization of it, for destiny.”
—Joseph Brodsky (b. 1940)