False Lights

Famous quotes containing the words false and/or lights:

    Well, most men have bound their eyes with one or another handkerchief, and attached themselves to some of these communities of opinion. This conformity makes them not false in a few particulars, authors of a few lies, but false in all particulars. Their every truth is not quite true. Their two is not the real two, their four not the real four; so that every word they say chagrins us and we know not where to set them right.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

    There in the narrow,
    mote-filled finger of light, is a blonde
    so blonde, so blinding, she is a blizzard, a huge
    spook, and lights up like the sun the audience
    in its galoshes. She bulges like a deuce coupe.
    When we see her we say good-bye to Kansas.
    Lynn Emanuel (b. 1949)