Local White

Famous quotes containing the words local and/or white:

    While it may not heighten our sympathy, wit widens our horizons by its flashes, revealing remote hidden affiliations and drawing laughter from far afield; humor, in contrast, strikes up fellow feeling, and though it does not leap so much across time and space, enriches our insight into the universal in familiar things, lending it a local habitation and a name.
    —Marie Collins Swabey. Comic Laughter, ch. 5, Yale University Press (1961)

    Whether he cringe at my feet,
    whether he beat on your eyes,
    white wings, white butterflies.
    Hilda Doolittle (1886–1961)