Seismic Moment Release

Famous quotes containing the words seismic, moment and/or release:

    “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)

    “At the thick of the dark
    the moment of the cold’s
    deepest plunge we brought branches
    cut from the green trees

    to fill our need,”
    —William Carlos Williams (1883–1963)

    “The steel decks rock with the lightning shock, and shake with the
    great recoil,
    And the sea grows red with the blood of the dead and reaches for his spoil—
    But not till the foe has gone below or turns his prow and runs,
    Shall the voice of peace bring sweet release to the men behind the
    guns!”
    —John Jerome Rooney (1866–1934)