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)

    “There comes a time when the waltz
    Is no longer a mode of desire, a mode
    Of revealing desire and is empty of shadows.
    Too many waltzes have ended.”
    —Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)

    “If God lived on earth, people would break his windows.”
    —Jewish proverb, quoted in Claud Cockburn, Cockburn Sums Up, epigraph (1981)