Secondary Belief

Famous quotes containing the words secondary and/or belief:

    Cloud-clown, blue painter, sun as horn,
    Hill-scholar, man that never is,
    The bad-bespoken lacker,
    Ancestor of Narcissus, prince
    Of the secondary men. There are no rocks
    And stones, only this imager.
    Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)

    Hope is a pathological belief in the occurrence of the impossible.
    —H.L. (Henry Lewis)