Arrow Slit

Famous quotes containing the words arrow and/or slit:

    “It is easy to dodge a spear in the daylight, but it is difficult to avoid an arrow in the dark.”
    —Chinese proverb.

    “For, brother, know that this is art, and you
    With a cold incautious sorrow stricken dumb,
    Have your own vanishing slit of light let through,
    Passionate as winter, where only a few may come:
    Not idiots in the street find out the lees
    In the last drink of dying Socrates.”
    —Allen Tate (1899–1979)