Tail Point Light

Famous quotes containing the words tail, point and/or light:

“The tiger in the tiger-pit
Is not more irritable than I.
The whipping tail is not more still
Than when I smell the enemy
Writhing in the essential blood
Or dangling from the friendly tree.”
—T.S. (Thomas Stearns)

“The closer a man approaches tragedy the more intense is his concentration of emotion upon the fixed point of his commitment, which is to say the closer he approaches what in life we call fanaticism.”
—Arthur Miller (b. 1915)

“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.)