Evanescent Wave Coupling

Famous quotes containing the words evanescent, wave and/or coupling:

    “The thing about Proust is his combination of the utmost sensibility with the utmost tenacity. He searches out these butterfly shades to the last grain. He is as tough as catgut and as evanescent as a butterfly’s bloom.”
    —Virginia Woolf (1882–1941)

    “The wave of evil washes all our institutions alike.”
    —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

    “The time of the seasons and the constellations
    The time of milking and the time of harvest
    The time of the coupling of man and woman
    And that of beasts. Feet rising and falling.
    Eating and drinking. Dung and death.”
    —T.S. (Thomas Stearns)