Modern Double Basses

Famous quotes containing the words modern, double and/or basses:

    “We Irish, born into that ancient sect
    But thrown upon this filthy modern tide
    And by its formless spawning fury wrecked,
    Climb to our proper dark, that we may trace
    The lineaments of a plummet-measured face.”
    —William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)

    “He does me double wrong
    That wounds me with the flatteries of his tongue.”
    —William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

    “Of a green evening, clear and warm,
    She bathed in her still garden, while
    The red-eyed elders watching, felt

    The basses of their beings throb
    In witching chords, and their thin blood
    Pulse pizzicati of Hosanna.”
    —Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)