Ear Piercing Instruments

Famous quotes containing the words ear, piercing and/or instruments:

    “It seems that I must bid the Muse to pack,
    Choose Plato and Plotinus for a friend
    Until imagination, ear and eye,
    Can be content with argument and deal
    In abstract things; or be derided by
    A sort of battered kettle at the heel.”
    —William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)

    “O falling fire and piercing cry
    and panic, and a weak mailed fist
    clenched ignorant against the sky!”
    —Elizabeth Bishop (1911–1979)

    “I lay my eternal curse on whomsoever shall now or at any time hereafter make schoolbooks of my works and make me hated as Shakespeare is hated. My plays were not designed as instruments of torture. All the schools that lust after them get this answer, and will never get any other.”
    —George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950)