Instrument

Famous quotes containing the word instrument:

“Man lives consciously for himself, but is an unconscious instrument in the attainment of the historic, universal, aims of humanity.”
—Leo Tolstoy (1829–1910)

“The great instrument of moral good is the imagination.”
—Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792–1822)

“... I am an instrument in the shape/of a woman trying to translate pulsations/into images for the relief of the body/and the reconstruction of the mind.”
—Adrienne Rich (b. 1929)