Famous quotes containing the words strike, systems and/or wing:
“Could beauty be beaten out,
O youth the cities have sent
to strike at each others strength,
it is you who have kept her alight.”
—Hilda Doolittle (18861961)
“The geometry of landscape and situation seems to create its own systems of time, the sense of a dynamic element which is cinematising the events of the canvas, translating a posture or ceremony into dynamic terms. The greatest movie of the 20th century is the Mona Lisa, just as the greatest novel is Grays Anatomy.”
—J.G. (James Graham)
“I could replace
God for awhile, that old ring of candles,
that owls wing brushing the dew
off my grass hair.”
—Denise Levertov (b. 1923)
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