Orton Defeated Barrett

Famous quotes containing the words orton, defeated and/or barrett:

    You were born with your legs apart. They’ll send you to the grave in a Y-shaped coffin.
    —Joe Orton (1933–1967)

    With a defeated joy,
    With an auspicious, and a dropping eye,
    With mirth in funeral, and with dirge in marriage,
    In equal scale weighing delight and dole.
    William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

    What is art,
    But life upon the larger scale, the higher,
    When, graduating up in a spiral line
    Of still expanding and ascending gyres,
    It pushes toward the intense significance
    Of all things, hungry for the Infinite?
    Art’s life,—and where we live, we suffer and toil.
    —Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806–1861)