Famous quotes containing the words van and/or die:
“Irrefragability, thy name is mathematics.”
—Willard Van Orman Quine (b. 1908)
“Yet, to the empty trapeze of your flesh,
O Magdalene, each comes back to die alone.
Then you, the burlesque of our lust—and faith,
Lug us back lifeward—bone by infant bone.”
—Hart Crane (1899–1932)