Stretched

Famous quotes containing the word stretched:

    Old men who never cheated, never doubted,
    Communicated monthly, sit and stare
    At the new suburb stretched beyond the run-way
    Where a young man lands hatless from the air.
    Sir John Betjeman (1906–1984)

    Thou, pallid there as chalk,
    Hast kept of wounds, O Mourner, all that sum
    That then from Appomattox stretched to Somme!
    Hart Crane (1899–1932)

    It is the stretched soul that makes music, and souls are stretched by the pull of opposites—opposite bents, tastes, yearnings, loyalties. Where there is no polarity—where energies flow smoothly in one direction—there will be much doing but no music.
    Eric Hoffer (1902–1983)