Falling Tone

Famous quotes containing the words falling and/or tone:

    “Life stood on the top stair a moment
    Waved her last gray slander down the stair,
    I will not forget her absent eyes
    Her other smile like one rose
    Falling, falling everywhere....”
    —Allen Tate (1899–1979)

    “It makes me hate accepting things that are probable when they are held up before me as infallibly true. I prefer these words which tone down and modify the hastiness of our propositions: “Perhaps, In some sort, Some, They say, I think,” and the like.”
    —Michel de Montaigne (1533–1592)