China Air Task

Famous quotes containing the words china, air and/or task:

    “The roof of England fell
    Great Paris tolled her bell
    And China staunched her milk and wept for bread”
    —Karl Shapiro (b. 1913)

    ““With your air indifferent and imperious
    At a stroke our mad poetics to confute—”
    And—”Are we then so serious?””
    —T.S. (Thomas Stearns)

    “This is the fundamental idea of culture, insofar as it sets but one task for each of us: to further the production of the philosopher, of the artist, and of the saint within us and outside us, and thereby to work at the consummation of nature.”
    —Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)