Perfect Passive

Famous quotes containing the words perfect and/or passive:

    “... A La Recherche du Temps Perdu is like a beautiful hand with long fingers reaching out to pluck a perfect fruit, without error, for the accurate eye knows well it is growing just there on the branch, while Ulysses is the fumbling of a horned hand in darkness after a doubted jewel.”
    —Rebecca West (1892–1983)

    “She has taken her passive pigeon poor,
    She has buried him down and down.
    He never shall sally to Sally
    Nor soil any roofs of the town.”
    —Gwendolyn Brooks (b. 1917)