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Famous quotes containing the word search:

    “Professor Eucalyptus said, “The search
    For reality is as momentous as
    The search for god.” It is the philosopher’s search
    For an interior made exterior
    And the poet’s search for the same exterior made
    Interior: breathless things broodingly abreath....”
    —Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)

    “why
    Do our black faces search the empty sky?
    Is there something we have forgotten? some precious thing
    We have lost, wandering in strange lands?”
    —Arna Bontemps (1902–1973)

    “On short, still days
    At the shut of the year
    We search the pathways
    Where the coverts were.”
    —Philip Larkin (1922–1986)