Famous quotes containing the words partial and/or birth:
“The one-eyed man will be King in the country of the blind only if he arrives there in full possession of his partial facultiesthat is, providing he is perfectly aware of the precise nature of sight and does not confuse it with second sight ... nor with madness.”
—Angela Carter (19401992)
“Not yet the thirtieth year, the thirtieth
Station where time reverses his light heels
To run both ways, and makes of forward back;
Whose long co-ordinates are birth and death....”
—Allen Tate (18991979)