Power Dissipated

Famous quotes containing the words power and/or dissipated:

    The memory ... experiencing and re-experiencing, has such power over one’s mere personal life, that one has merely lived.
    Rebecca West (1892–1983)

    Of how he loved high laughter and the lonely
    Heart, and cursed a dissipated rime
    Of weariness in a golden morning, only
    To rouse a cold Helen where the dawn distils
    Her bewildered beauty on feet-forgotten hills.
    Allen Tate (1899–1979)