Crystal Shape

Famous quotes containing the words crystal and/or shape:

    “We have ... a thirst unquenchable, to allay which he has not shown us the crystal springs. This thirst belongs to the immortality of Man.... It is no mere appreciation of the Beauty before us—but a wild effort to reach the Beauty above.”
    —Edgar Allan Poe (1809–1849)

    “And yonder in the gymnasts’ garden thrives
    The self-sown, self-begotten shape that gives
    Athenian intellect its mastery,
    Even the grey-leaved olive-tree
    Miracle-bred out of the living stone....”
    —William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)