Swan Electric Light

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

    “The snow, which doth the top of Pindus strew,
    Did never whiter shew,
    Nor Jove himself, when he a swan would be
    For love of Leda, whiter did appear:”
    —Edmund Spenser (1552?–1599)

    “Persons grouped around a fire or candle for warmth or light are less able to pursue independent thoughts, or even tasks, than people supplied with electric light. In the same way, the social and educational patterns latent in automation are those of self- employment and artistic autonomy.”
    —Marshall McLuhan (1911–1980)

    “Like a poet hidden
    In the light of thought,
    Singing hymns unbidden,
    Till the world is wrought
    To sympathy with hopes and fears it heeded not:”
    —Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792–1822)