Present Day North

Famous quotes containing the words present, day and/or north:

    “There is natural ignorance and there is artificial ignorance. I should say at the present moment the artificial ignorance is about eighty-five per cent.”
    —Ezra Pound (1885–1972)

    “The catastrophe
    Buried in the stair carpet stayed there
    And never corrupted anybody.
    And one day he grew up, and the horizon
    Stammered politely. The sky was like muslin.
    And still in the old house no one ever answered the bell.”
    —John Ashbery (b. 1927)

    “Civilization must be destroyed. The hairy saints
    Of the North have earned this crumb by their complaints.”
    —Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)