Compass Call

Famous quotes containing the words compass and/or call:

“Cruelty is a mystery, and the waste of pain. But if we describe a word to compass these things, a world that is a long, brute game, then we bump against another mystery: the inrush of power and delight, the canary that sings on the skull.”
—Annie Dillard (b. 1945)

“DEAR WALDO,—For I think I have heard that that is your name.... Whatever I may call you, I know you better than I know your name.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)