Famous quotes containing the words kingfisher, tennis, open and/or doubles:
“the mud
Flies from his hunching wings and beak—my heart,
The blue kingfisher dives on you in fire.”
—Robert Lowell (1917–1977)
“Writing free verse is like playing tennis with the net down.”
—Robert Frost (1874–1963)
“Better is open rebuke than hidden love.”
—Bible: Hebrew, Proverbs 27:5.
“Despots play their part in the works of thinkers. Fettered words are terrible words. The writer doubles and trebles the power of his writing when a ruler imposes silence on the people. Something emerges from that enforced silence, a mysterious fullness which filters through and becomes steely in the thought. Repression in history leads to conciseness in the historian, and the rocklike hardness of much celebrated prose is due to the tempering of the tyrant.”
—Victor Hugo (1802–1885)