Tearing Modes

Famous quotes containing the words tearing and/or modes:

    The mind enters itself, and God the mind,
    And one is One, free in the tearing wind.
    Theodore Roethke (1908–1963)

    Without any extraordinary effort of genius, I have discovered that nature was the same three thousand years ago as at present; that men were but men then as well as now; that modes and customs vary often, but that human nature is always the same. And I can no more suppose, that men were better, braver, or wiser, fifteen hundred or three thousand years ago, than I can suppose that the animals or vegetables were better than they are now.
    Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl Chesterfield (1694–1773)