Burst Pulsed Sounds

Famous quotes containing the words burst and/or sounds:

“I stand amid the dust o’ the mounded years—
My mangled youth lies dead beneath the heap,
My days have crackled and gone up in smoke,
Have puffed and burst as sun-starts on a stream.”
—Francis Thompson (1859–1907)

“Why is it that reality, when set down untransposed in a book, sounds false?”
—Simone Weil (1909–1943)