Famous quotes containing the words power and/or barge:
“When petty people get into power they consider themselves unexcelled in the world.”
—Chinese proverb.
“We are afloat
On our dreams as on a barge made of ice,
Shot through with questions and fissures of starlight
That keep us awake, thinking about the dreams
As they are happening. Some occurrence. You said it.”
—John Ashbery (b. 1927)