Shutter Traverse Time

Famous quotes containing the words shutter, traverse and/or time:

    “And there is nothing in the eye,
    Shut shutter of the mineral man
    Who takes the fatherless dark to bed,
    The acid sky to the brain-pan;
    And calls the crows to peck his head.”
    —Allen Tate (1899–1979)

    “The wind speeds her,
    Blowing upon her hands
    And watery back.
    She touches the clouds, where she goes
    In the circle of her traverse of the sea.”
    —Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)

    “Take not God’s name in vain; select
    A time when it will have effect.”
    —Ambrose Bierce (1842–1914)