Bowed String

Famous quotes containing the words bowed and/or string:

    “The Powers whose name and shape no living creature knows
    Have pulled the Immortal Rose;
    And though the Seven Lights bowed in their dance and wept,
    The Polar Dragon slept,
    His heavy rings uncoiled from glimmering deep to deep....”
    —William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)

    “Supposing everyone lived at one time what would they say. They would observe that stringing string beans is universal.”
    —Gertrude Stein (1874–1946)