Famous quotes containing the words number and/or resource:
“Among a hundred windows shining
dully in the vast side
of greater-than-palace number such-and-such
one burns
these several years, each night
as if the room within were aflame.”
—Denise Levertov (b. 1923)
“The waste of plenty is the resource of scarcity.”
—Thomas Love Peacock (1785–1866)