Chopped Strand Mat

Famous quotes containing the words chopped, strand and/or mat:

    “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 (1899–1973)

    “We all have reasons
    for moving.
    I move
    to keep things whole.”
    —Mark Strand (b. 1934)

    “Or on the Mat devoutly kneeling
    Would lift her Eyes up to the Ceiling,
    And heave her Bosom unaware
    For neighb’ring Beaux to see it bare.”
    —Jonathan Swift (1667–1745)