Famous quotes containing the words limb, darkening and/or effect:
“You really were a panther, a wild-cat,
who tore me limb from limb;
my thanks for that.”
—Hilda Doolittle (18861961)
“O love, my love! if I no more should see
Thyself, nor on the earth the shadow of thee,
Nor image of thine eyes in any spring,
How then should sound upon Lifes darkening slope
The ground-whirl of the perished leaves of Hope,
The wind of Deaths imperishable wing?”
—Dante Gabriel Rossetti (18281882)
“The second [of Zenos arguments about motion] is the one called Achilles. This is to the effect that the slowest as it runs will never be caught by the quickest. For the pursuer must first reach the point from which the pursued departed, so that the slower must always be some distance in front.”
—Zeno Of Elea (c. 490430 B.C.)
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