Life Turns Electric

Famous quotes containing the words life, turns and/or electric:

    “Still we live meanly, like ants; though the fable tells us that we were long ago changed into men; like pygmies we fight with cranes; it is error upon error, and clout upon clout, and our best virtue has for its occasion a superfluous and evitable wretchedness. Our life is frittered away by detail.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    “The banners flashing through the trees
    Make their blood dance and chain their eyes;
    That bugle-music on the breeze
    Arrests them with a charm’d surprise.
    Banner by turns and bugle woo:
    Ye shy recluses, follow too!”
    —Matthew Arnold (1822–1888)

    “The widest prairies have electric fences....”
    —Philip Larkin (1922–1986)