Bowed Instrument

Famous quotes containing the words bowed and/or instrument:

    “Your eyes that once were never weary of mine
    Are bowed in sorrow under pendulous lids,
    Because our love is waning.”
    William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)

    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)