Messenger Wire

Famous quotes containing the words messenger and/or wire:

    “Light-winged Smoke, Icarian bird,
    Melting thy pinions in thy upward flight,
    Lark without song, and messenger of dawn,
    Circling above the hamlets as thy nest;”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    “Constantly risking absurdity
    and death
    whenever he performs
    above the heads
    of his audience
    the poet like an acrobat
    climbs on rime
    to a high wire of his own making.”
    —Lawrence Ferlinghetti (b. 1919)