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)

    There is a power in love to divine another’s destiny better than that other can, and, by heroic engagements, hold him to his task.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

    They had both noticed that a life of dissipation sometimes gave to a face the look of gaunt suffering spirituality that a life of asceticism was supposed to give and quite often did not.
    Katherine Anne Porter (1890–1980)