Clown Explains

Famous quotes containing the words clown and/or explains:

“Or else I thought her supernatural;
As though a sterner eye looked through her eye
On this foul world in its decline and fall,
On gangling stocks grown great, great stocks run dry,
Ancestral pearls all pitched into a sty,
Heroic reverie mocked by clown and knave....”
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)

“Unlike the actual, the fictional explains itself.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)