Concrete Element

Famous quotes containing the words concrete and/or element:

    “The city’s grotesque iron skeletons
    Would knock their drunken penthouse heads together
    And cake their concrete dirt off in the streets.”
    Robert Frost (1874–1963)

    Every American, to the last man, lays claim to a “sense” of humor and guards it as his most significant spiritual trait, yet rejects humor as a contaminating element wherever found. America is a nation of comics and comedians; nevertheless, humor has no stature and is accepted only after the death of the perpetrator.
    —E.B. (Elwyn Brooks)