Swan Electric Light

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

    “The more I see of democracy the more I dislike it. It just brings everything down to the mere vulgar level of wages and prices, electric light and water closets, and nothing else.”
    —D.H. (David Herbert)

    “But all is changed, that high horse riderless,
    Though mounted in that saddle Homer rode
    Where the swan drifts upon a darkening flood.”
    —William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)

    “Remember dancing in
    those electric shoes?
    Remember?
    Remember music
    and beware.”
    —Anne Sexton (1928–1974)

    “Stern Daughter of the Voice of God!
    O Duty! if that name thou love,
    Who art a light to guide, a rod
    To check the erring, and reprove;”
    —William Wordsworth (1770–1850)