Comic Standing

Famous quotes containing the words comic and/or standing:

    “Nature is a setting that fits equally well a comic or a mourning piece. In good health, the air is a cordial of incredible virtue. Crossing a bare common, in snow puddles, at twilight, under a clouded sky, without having in my thoughts any occurrence of special good fortune, I have enjoyed a perfect exhilaration. I am glad to the brink of fear.”
    —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

    “There is no going back,
    For standing still means death, and life is moving on,
    Moving on towards death. But sometimes standing still is also life.”
    —John Ashbery (b. 1927)