Crack

Famous quotes containing the word crack:

    “You crash over the trees,
    you crack the live branch.”
    —Hilda Doolittle (1886–1961)

    “Spread outward. Crack the round dome. Break through.
    Have liberty not as the air within a grave
    Or down a well. Breathe freedom, oh, my native,
    In the space of horizons that neither love nor hate.”
    —Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)

    “You must be wise, in order to sniff out and weigh these mighty books, and swift in the hunt and brave in the battle; then, by careful reading and frequent reflection, crack open the bone and suck out the substantific marrow.”
    —François Rabelais (1494–1553)