Famous quotes containing the words yield and/or surface:
“Thus did he yield me in the shady night
A wondrous and instructive light,
Which taught me that under our feet there is,
As oer our heads, a place of bliss.”
—Thomas Traherne (16361674)
“We tend to be so bombarded with information, and we move so quickly, that theres a tendency to treat everything on the surface level and process things quickly. This is antithetical to the kind of openness and perception you have to have to be receptive to poetry. ... poetry seems to exist in a parallel universe outside daily life in America.”
—Rita Dove (b. 1952)
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