Defining Empty Sums

Famous quotes containing the words defining, empty and/or sums:

    “Art, if one employs this term in the broad sense that includes poetry within its realm, is an art of creation laden with ideals, located at the very core of the life of a people, defining the spiritual and moral shape of that life.”
    —Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev (1818–1883)

    “Come hither, all ye empty things,
    Ye bubbles rais’d by breath of Kings;
    Who float upon the tide of state,
    Come hither, and behold your fate.
    Let pride be taught by this rebuke,
    How very mean a thing’s a Duke;
    From all his ill-got honours flung,
    Turn’d to that dirt from whence he sprung.”
    —Jonathan Swift (1667–1745)

    “At Timon’s villalet us pass a day,
    Where all cry out,What sums are thrown away!’”
    —Alexander Pope (1688–1744)