Consists

Famous quotes containing the word consists:

    The poetic act consists of suddenly seeing that an idea splits up into a number of equal motifs and of grouping them; they rhyme.
    Stéphane Mallarmé (1842–1898)

    In my room, the world is beyond my understanding;
    But when I walk I see that it consists of three or four hills and a cloud.
    Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)

    A country is strong which consists of wealthy families, every member of whom is interested in defending a common treasure; it is weak when composed of scattered individuals, to whom it matters little whether they obey seven or one, a Russian or a Corsican, so long as each keeps his own plot of land, blind in their wretched egotism, to the fact that the day is coming when this too will be torn from them.
    Honoré De Balzac (1799–1850)