Famous quotes containing the words lap and/or record:
“Earth fills her lap with pleasures of her own;”
—William Wordsworth (1770–1850)
“Such is the role of poetry. It unveils, in the strict sense of the word. It lays bare, under a light which shakes off torpor, the surprising things which surround us and which our senses record mechanically.”
—Jean Cocteau (1889–1963)