Cosmic Corkscrew

Famous quotes containing the words cosmic and/or corkscrew:

“We made a silence, for teacups, once
After cosmic gall had bittered a lidless night....”
—Allen Tate (1899–1979)

“An accurate charting of the American woman’s progress through history might look more like a corkscrew tilted slightly to one side, its loops inching closer to the line of freedom with the passage of time—but like a mathematical curve approaching infinity, never touching its goal. . . . Each time, the spiral turns her back just short of the finish line.”
—Susan Faludi (20th century)