Mercury Delay Lines

Famous quotes containing the words mercury, delay and/or lines:

    “The mercury sank in the mouth of the dying day.
    What instruments we have agree
    The day of his death was a dark cold day.”
    —W.H. (Wystan Hugh)

    “I warn you, avoid this evil, and let his own care delay each, and let him not change the spot of his accustomed love.”
    —Propertius Sextus (c. 50–16 B.C.)

    “To understand
    The signs that stars compose, we need depend
    Only on stars that are entirely there
    And the apparent space between them. There
    Never need be lines between them, puzzling
    Our sense of what is what.”
    —John Hollander (b. 1929)