Seismic Activity

Famous quotes containing the words seismic and/or activity:

    “Most near, most dear, most loved and most far,
    Under the window where I often found her
    Sitting as huge as Asia, seismic with laughter,”
    —George Barker (b. 1913)

    “Every writer is necessarily a critic—that is, each sentence is a skeleton accompanied by enormous activity of rejection; and each selection is governed by general principles concerning truth, force, beauty, and so on.... The critic that is in every fabulist is like the iceberg—nine-tenths of him is under water.”
    —Thornton Wilder (1897–1975)