Hour Lines

Famous quotes containing the words hour and/or lines:

“The hour of departure has arrived, and we go our ways—I to die and you to live. Which is the better, only God knows.”
—Socrates (469–399 B.C.)

“We stand in the tumult of a festival.
What festival? This loud, disordered mooch?
These hospitaliers? These brute-like guests?
These musicians dubbing at a tragedy,
A-dub, a-dub, which is made up of this:
That there are no lines to speak? There is no play.”
—Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)