Local Fields

Famous quotes containing the words local and/or fields:

    “Back now to autumn, leaving the ended husk
    Of summer that brought them here for Show Saturday
    The men with hunters, dog-breeding wool-defined women,
    Children all saddle-swank, mugfaced middleaged wives
    Glaring at jellies, husbands on leave from the garden
    Watchful as weasels, car-tuning curt-haired sons
    Back now, all of them, to their local lives....”
    —Philip Larkin (1922–1986)

    “The need to exert power, when thwarted in the open fields of life, is the more likely to assert itself in trifles.”
    —Charles Horton Cooley (1864–1929)