Raised Warp Threads

Famous quotes containing the words raised, warp and/or threads:

    “But dread
    was in her, a bloodbeat, it was against the rolling dark
    oncoming river she raised bulwarks....”
    —Denise Levertov (b. 1923)

    “All conservatives are such from personal defects. They have been effeminated by position or nature, born halt and blind, through luxury of their parents, and can only, like invalids, act on the defensive. But strong natures, backwoodsmen, New Hampshire giants, Napoleons, Burkes, Broughams, Websters, Kossuths, are inevitable patriots, until their life ebbs, and their defects and gout, palsy and money, warp them.”
    —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

    “All is waste and worthless, till
    Arrives the selecting will,
    And, out of slime and chaos, Wit
    Draws the threads of fair and fit.”
    —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)