Swan Electric Light

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

    “And of the swan in death these dreamers tell
    of its last flight and how it falls, a plummet,
    pierced by the freezing bullet
    and how three feathers, loosened by the shot,
    descend like snow upon it.”
    —Patricia K. Page (b. 1916)

    “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)

    “To light one candle to God and another to the Devil is the principle of wisdom.”
    —José Bergamín (1895–1983)