Law Bearing

Famous quotes containing the words law and/or bearing:

    “Concord’s little arch does not span all our fate, nor is what transpires under it law for the universe.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    “the whole sea become an entanglement of watery bodies
    lost to the world bearing what they cannot hold. Broken,

    beaten, desolate, reaching from the dead to be taken up
    they cry out, failing, failing! their cries rising
    in waves still as the skillful yachts pass over.”
    —William Carlos Williams (1883–1963)