Famous quotes containing the words minor, heat and/or chapter:
“For a country to have a great writer ... is like having another government. Thats why no rĂ©gime has ever loved great writers, only minor ones.”
—Alexander Solzhenitsyn (b. 1918)
“Two wooden tubs of blue hydrangeas stand at the foot of the stone steps.
The sky is a blue gum streaked with rose. The trees are black.
The grackles crack their throats of bone in the smooth air.
Moisture and heat have swollen the garden into a slum of bloom.
Pardie! Summer is like a fat beast, sleepy in mildew....”
—Wallace Stevens (18791955)
“When one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated into a better language.”
—John Donne (c. 15721631)
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