Famous quotes containing the words secondary, exhaust and/or rocker:
“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 (18791955)
“Language is like soil. However rich, it is subject to erosion, and its fertility is constantly threatened by uses that exhaust its vitality. It needs constant re-invigoration if it is not to become arid and sterile.”
—Elizabeth Drew (18871965)
“I want a place where I can sit back in the rocker and say, Do you remember when we picketed the White House in 1965?”
—Barbara Gittings (b. 1932)
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