Famous quotes containing the words single, action and/or release:
“You behold a range of exhausted volcanoes. Not a flame flickers on a single pallid crest.”
—Benjamin Disraeli (18041881)
“If, from the very first, the action of the play is absurd, it is because this is the way mad Waltzbefore the play startsimagines it is going to be....”
—Vladimir Nabokov (18991977)
“We read poetry because the poets, like ourselves, have been haunted by the inescapable tyranny of time and death; have suffered the pain of loss, and the more wearing, continuous pain of frustration and failure; and have had moods of unlooked-for release and peace. They have known and watched in themselves and others.”
—Elizabeth Drew (18871965)
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