External Hard

Famous quotes containing the words external and/or hard:

“The soul, he said, is composed
Of the external world.”
—Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)

“It is what we imagine knowledge to be:
dark, salt, clear, moving, utterly free,
drawn from the cold hard mouth
of the world, derived from the rocky breasts
forever, flowing and drawn, and since
our knowledge is historical, flowing, and flown.”
—Elizabeth Bishop (1911–1979)