Continuous Power Dissipation

Famous quotes containing the words continuous, power and/or dissipation:

    We read poetry because the poets, like ourselves, have been haunted by the inescapable tyranny of time and death; have suffered the pain of loss, and the more wearing, continuous pain of frustration and failure; and have had moods of unlooked-for release and peace. They have known and watched in themselves and others.
    Elizabeth Drew (1887–1965)

    it is a power of
    strong enchantment. It
    is like the dove-
    neck animated by
    sun; it is memory’s eye;
    it’s conscientious inconsistency.
    Marianne Moore (1887–1972)

    Crowds without company, and dissipation without pleasure.
    Edward Gibbon (1737–1794)