Original Bear Flag

Famous quotes containing the words original, bear and/or flag:

    It is conventional to call “monster” any blending of dissonant elements.... I call “monster” every original inexhaustible beauty.
    Alfred Jarry (1873–1907)

    Like many other great moralists and preachers, she had been eloquent on a point in which her own conduct would ill bear examination.
    Jane Austen (1775–1817)

    —Here, the flag snaps in the glare and silence
    Of the unbroken ice. I stand here,
    The dogs bark, my beard is black, and I stare
    At the North Pole. . .
    And now what? Why, go back.

    Turn as I please, my step is to the south.
    Randall Jarrell (1914–1965)