Empty

Famous quotes containing the word empty:

“Poetry is either something that lives like fire inside you—like music to the musician or Marxism to the Communist—or else it is nothing, an empty formalized bore around which pedants can endlessly drone their notes and explanations.”
—F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896–1940)

“Erudition. Dust shaken out of a book into an empty skull.”
—Ambrose Bierce (1842–1914)

“Your empty happy body
Swarming in the light”
—Gary Snyder (b. 1930)