Task Waits

Famous quotes containing the words task and/or waits:

“The task of an American writer is not to describe the misgivings of a woman taken in adultery as she looks out of a window at the rain but to describe four hundred people under the lights reaching for a foul ball. This is ceremony.”
—John Cheever (1912–1982)

“Here, in front of the summer hotel
the beach waits like an altar.”
—Anne Sexton (1928–1974)