Famous quotes containing the words electric light, swan, electric and/or light:
“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 (19111980)
“The reason is:
rats leave the sinking ship
but we . . .
we . . .
didnt leave,
so the ship
didnt sink,
and thats madness,
Lears song
thats Touchstones forest jest,
thats swan of Avon logic.”
—Hilda Doolittle (18861961)
“Thats the down-town frieze,
Principally the church steeple,
A black line beside a white line;
And the stack of the electric plant,
A black line drawn on flat air.”
—Wallace Stevens (18791955)
“Mysterious Night! when our first parent knew
Thee from report divine, and heard thy name,
Did he not tremble for this lovely frame,
This glorious canopy of light and blue?”
—Joseph Blanco White (17751841)