Moment

Famous quotes containing the word moment:

“The soul is not a soul,
Has no secret, is small, and it fits
Its hollow perfectly: its room, our moment of attention.”
—John Ashbery (b. 1927)

“For one moment seek
a lesser beauty
and a lesser grace,
but you will find
no peace in the end
save in her presence.”
—Hilda Doolittle (1886–1961)

“The moment we indulge our affections, the earth is metamorphosed; there is no winter and no night; all tragedies, all ennuis, vanish,—all duties even.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)