Famous quotes containing the words flight, attendant and/or call:
“No Ravens wing can stretch the flight so far
As the torn bandrols of Napoleons war.
Choose then your climate, fix your best abode,
Hell make you deserts and hell bring you blood.
How could you fear a dearth? have not mankind,
Tho slain by millions, millions left behind?
Has not conscription still the power to weild
Her annual faulchion oer the human field?
A faithful harvester!”
—Joel Barlow (17541812)
“Soon, with a noise like tambourines,
Came her attendant Byzantines.”
—Wallace Stevens (18791955)
“Dark times is what they call it in Norway when the sun remains below the horizon all day long: the temperature falls slowly but surely at such times.A nice metaphor for all those thinkers for whom the sun of mankinds future has temporarily disappeared.”
—Friedrich Nietzsche (18441900)