High Wire

Famous quotes containing the words high and/or wire:

    “How tall the buildings were as I began
    To live, and how high the rain that battered them!”
    —John Ashbery (b. 1927)

    “Constantly risking absurdity
    and death
    whenever he performs
    above the heads
    of his audience
    the poet like an acrobat
    climbs on rime
    to a high wire of his own making.”
    —Lawrence Ferlinghetti (b. 1919)