Swan Electric Light

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

“The Teutons have been singing the swan song ever since they entered the ranks of history. They have always confounded truth with death.”
—Henry Miller (1891–1980)

“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)

“If you have done terrible things, you must endure terrible things; for thus the sacred light of injustice shines bright.”
—Sophocles (497–406/5 B.C.)