Double String Orchestra

Famous quotes containing the words double, string and/or orchestra:

    “The obsession with suicide is characteristic of the man who can neither live nor die, and whose attention never swerves from this double impossibility.”
    —E.M. Cioran (b. 1911)

    “... looped with the creep of varying light,
    Monkey-brown, fish-grey, a string of infected circles
    Loitering like bullies, about to coagulate....”
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    “As the artist
    extends his world with
    one gratuitous flourish—a stroke of white or
    a run on the clarinet above the
    bass tones of the orchestra ...”
    —Denise Levertov (b. 1923)