Famous quotes containing the word shapes:
“Nothing can happen nowhere. The locale of the happening always colours the happening, and often, to a degree, shapes it.”
—Elizabeth Bowen (18991973)
“Some say that gleams of a remoter world
Visit the soul in sleep,that death is slumber,
And that its shapes the busy thoughts outnumber
Of those who wake and live.”
—Percy Bysshe Shelley (17921822)
“No, no; but as in my idolatry
I said to all my profane mistresses,
Beauty, of pity, foulness only is
A sign of rigour: so I say to thee,
To wicked spirits are horrid shapes assignd,
This beauteous form assures a piteous mind.”
—John Donne (15721631)
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