Oil Slick

Famous quotes containing the words oil and/or slick:

“Opinions are to the vast apparatus of social existence what oil is to machines: one does not go up to a turbine and pour machine oil over it; one applies a little to hidden spindles and joints that one has to know.”
—Walter Benjamin (1892–1940)

“Poetry a riprap on the slick rock of metaphysics”
—Gary Snyder (b. 1930)