Swan Electric Light

Famous quotes containing the words swan, electric and/or light:

    “When the swan must fix his eye
    Upon a fading gleam,
    Float out upon a long
    Last reach of glittering stream
    And there sing his last song.”
    —William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)

    “Flabby, bald, lobotomized,
    he drifted in a sheepish calm,
    where no agonizing reappraisal
    jarred his concentration of the electric chair—
    hanging like an oasis in his air
    of lost connections. . . .”
    —Robert Lowell (1917–1977)

    “It is obvious that we can no more explain a passion to a person who has never experienced it than we can explain light to the blind.”
    —T.S. (Thomas Stearns)