False Alarms

Famous quotes containing the words false and/or alarms:

    “The wisest definition of poetry the poet will instantly prove false by setting aside its requisitions.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    “And we are here as on a darkling plain
    Swept with confused alarms of struggle and flight,
    Where ignorant armies clash by night.”
    —Matthew Arnold (1822–1888)