Optically Pure Air

Famous quotes containing the words pure air, pure and/or air:

    “Genius resembles a bell; in order to ring it must be suspended into pure air, and when a foreign body touches it, its joyful tone is silenced.”
    —Franz Grillparzer (1791–1872)

    “The modern city hardly knows pure darkness or pure silence anymore, nor does it know the effect of a single small light or that of a lonely distant shout.”
    —Johan Huizinga (1872–1945)

    “Only the gaunt fierce bird
    Flies, merciless with fear
    Lest air hold him not,
    Beats up the scaffold of space
    Sick of the world’s rot
    God’s hideous face.”
    —Allen Tate (1899–1979)