Famous quotes containing the words sharp, statements, equivalent and/or existence:
“O for some sharp swish of a branch
there is no scent of resin
in this place.”
—Hilda Doolittle (18861961)
“In so far as the statements of geometry speak about reality, they are not certain, and in so far as they are certain, they do not speak about reality.”
—Albert Einstein (18791955)
“When the apple is ripe it will fall.”
—Irish proverb.
An English equivalent to this might be, To everything there is a season.
“It is because everything is relative
That we shall never see in that sphere of pure wisdom and
Entertainment much more than groping shadows of an incomplete
Former existence so close it burns like the mouth that
Closes down over all your effort like the moment
Of death”
—John Ashbery (b. 1927)
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