Famous quotes containing the words long and/or slit:
“How long halt ye between two opinions?”
—Bible: Hebrew Elijah, in 1 Kings, 18:21.
Spoken to the children of Israel.
“For, brother, know that this is art, and you
With a cold incautious sorrow stricken dumb,
Have your own vanishing slit of light let through,
Passionate as winter, where only a few may come:
Not idiots in the street find out the lees
In the last drink of dying Socrates.”
—Allen Tate (1899–1979)