Local Hidden Variable

Famous quotes containing the words local, hidden and/or variable:

“There is the falsely mystical view of art that assumes a kind of supernatural inspiration, a possession by universal forces unrelated to questions of power and privilege or the artist’s relation to bread and blood. In this view, the channel of art can only become clogged and misdirected by the artist’s concern with merely temporary and local disturbances. The song is higher than the struggle.”
—Adrienne Rich (b. 1929)

“And the unfailing sense of being young
Spread out like a spring-woken tree, wherein
That hidden freshness sung,
That certainty of time laid up in store....”
—Philip Larkin (1922–1986)

“There is not so variable a thing in nature as a lady’s head-dress.”
—Joseph Addison (1672–1719)