Famous quotes containing the words john a and/or john:
“yet there was a chance in this
To see the present as it never had existed,
Clear and shapeless, in an atmosphere like cut glass.”
—John Ashbery (b. 1927)
“The origin of storms is not in clouds,
our lightning strikes when the earth rises,
spillways free authentic power:
dead John Brown’s body walking from a tunnel
to break the armored and concluded mind.”
—Muriel Rukeyser (1913–1980)