Infinite Formal Sum

Famous quotes containing the words infinite, formal and/or sum:

“Mary McDonald, you giggled as you passed—
I wondered what the boy with hairy chest
Carved on the wall of his inexpensive spirit
Memorial to your infinite unrest.”
—Allen Tate (1899–1979)

“True variety is in that plenitude of real and unexpected elements, in the branch charged with blue flowers thrusting itself, against all expectations, from the springtime hedge which seems already too full, while the purely formal imitation of variety ... is but void and uniformity, that is, that which is most opposed to variety....”
—Marcel Proust (1871–1922)

“They are but beggars that can count their worth,
But my true love is grown to such excess
I cannot sum up sum of half my wealth.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)