Resigned August

Famous quotes containing the words resigned and/or august:

    “The story of Americans is the story of arrested metamorphoses. Those who achieve success come to a halt and accept themselves as they are. Those who fail become resigned and accept themselves as they are.”
    —Harold Rosenberg (1906–1978)

    “I saw the spiders marching through the air,
    Swimming from tree to tree that mildewed day
    In latter August when the hay
    Came creaking to the barn.”
    —Robert Lowell (1917–1977)