True Specific Gravity

Famous quotes containing the words true, specific and/or gravity:

    “It’s the misfortune of German authors that not a single one of them dares to expose his true character. Everyone thinks that he has to be better than he is.”
    —Franz Grillparzer (1791–1872)

    “I was asking for something specific and perfect for my city,
    Whereupon lo! upsprang the aboriginal name.
    Now I see what there is in a name, a word, liquid, sane, unruly,
    musical, self-sufficient,
    I see that the word of my city is that word from of old,
    Because I see that word nested in nests of water-bays, superb,
    Rich, hemm’d thick all around with sailships and steamships, an
    island sixteen miles long, solid-founded,”
    —Walt Whitman (1819–1892)

    “Grown beyond nature now, soft food for worms,
    They lift frail heads in gravity and good faith.”
    —Derek Mahon (b. 1941)