Famous quotes containing the words arbitrarily and/or close:
“History is not a book, arbitrarily divided into chapters, or a drama chopped into separate acts: it has flowed forward. Rome is a continuity, called eternal. What has accumulated in this place acts on everyone, day and night, like an extra climate.”
—Elizabeth Bowen (18991973)
“I close my eyes over the steaming
tea and see God opening His teeth.
Oh, He says.
I see the child in me writing, Oh.
Oh, my dear, not why.”
—Anne Sexton (19281974)
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