Famous quotes containing the words fly, killing and/or scene:
“He wants to fly into the hand of Michelangelo
and come out painted on a ceiling.
He wants to pierce the hornets nest
and come out with a long godhead.”
—Anne Sexton (19281974)
“Let judges secretly despair of justice: their verdicts will be more acute. Let generals secretly despair of triumph; killing will be defamed. Let priests secretly despair of faith: their compassion will be true.”
—Leonard Cohen (b. 1934)
“The poem of the mind in the act of finding
What will suffice. It has not always had
To find: the scene was set; it repeated what
Was in the script.
Then the theatre was changed
To something else. Its past was a souvenir.”
—Wallace Stevens (18791955)
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