World Stopped Turning

Famous quotes containing the words world, stopped and/or turning:

    “The world is charged with the grandeur of God.
    It will flame out, like shining from shook foil.”
    —Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844–1889)

    “thinking of
    leaning on the john door in the 5 SPOT
    while she whispered a song along the keyboard
    to Mal Waldron and everyone and I stopped breathing”
    —Frank O’Hara (1926–1966)

    “Turning and turning in the widening gyre
    The falcon cannot hear the falconer;
    Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
    Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,”
    —William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)