Foreign Proper Names

Famous quotes containing the words foreign, proper and/or names:

“the young men who watch us from the curbs:
They hold the glaze of wonder in their stare
Our crooked backs, hands fetid as old herbs,
The tallow eyes, wax face, the foreign hair!”
—Allen Tate (1899–1979)

“Photography does not create eternity, as art does; it embalms time, rescuing it simply from its proper corruption.”
—André Bazin (1918–1958)

“Ideas about life organize perception; names of emotions organize sensations; rules of syntax organize thought. But pain comes on its own.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)