Chinese Daughter

Famous quotes containing the words chinese and/or daughter:

    “Only by the form, the pattern,
    Can words or music reach
    The stillness, as a Chinese jar still
    Moves perpetually in its stillness.”
    —T.S. (Thomas Stearns)

    “In his time, this one had little to speak of,
    The softest word went gurrituck in his skull.
    For him the moon was always in Scandinavia
    And his daughter was a foreign thing.”
    —Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)