Final Images

Famous quotes containing the words final and/or images:

“After the final no there comes a yes
And on that yes the future world depends.”
—Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)

“Language, the machine of the poet, is best fitted for his purpose in its rudest state. Nations, like individuals, first perceive, and then abstract. They advance from particular images to general terms. Hence the vocabulary of an enlightened society is philosophical, that of a half-civilised people is poetical.”
—Thomas Babington Macaulay (1800–1859)