Order Rocking Motion

Famous quotes containing the words order, rocking and/or motion:

    “Revolution is like the daughters of Pelias: it cuts humanity to pieces in order to rejuvenate it.”
    —Georg Büchner (1813–1837)

    “twenty centuries of stony sleep
    Were vexed to nightmare by a rocking cradle,
    And what rough beast, its hour come round at last,
    Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?”
    —William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)

    “subways, rivered under streets
    and rivers . . . in the car
    the overtone of motion
    underground, the monotone
    of motion is the sound
    of other faces, also underground—”
    —Hart Crane (1899–1932)