Volcanic Passive Margins

Famous quotes containing the words volcanic, passive and/or margins:

    Pity the planet, all joy gone
    from this sweet volcanic cone;
    Robert Lowell (1917–1977)

    We have not passed that subtle line between childhood and adulthood until we move from the passive voice to the active voice—that is, until we have stopped saying “It got lost,” and say, “I lost it.”
    Sydney J. Harris (b. 1917)

    Everything is becoming science fiction. From the margins of an almost invisible literature has sprung the intact reality of the 20th century.
    —J.G. (James Graham)