Famous quotes containing the words real, shape and/or shifting:
“Of what is real I say,
Is it the old, the roseate parent or
The bride come jingling, kissed and cupped, or else
The spirit and all ensigns of the self?”
—Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)
“his fear of the word “veil”;
and in the shape of a ship,
still another who slept.”
—Joáo Cabral De Melo Neto (b. 1920)
“Men are only too clever at shifting blame from their own shoulders to those of others.”
—Titus Livius (Livy)