Famous quotes containing the word confronting:
“Useful, untrustworthy, as a conveyor of commerce;
Then only a problem confronting the builder of bridges.”
—T.S. (Thomas Stearns)
“each prison crypt,
of canyoned traffic . . . Confronting the Exchange,
Surviving in a world of stocks,—”
—Hart Crane (1899–1932)
“No one lives in this room
without confronting the whiteness of the wall
behind the poems, planks of books,
photographs of dead heroines.
Without contemplating last and late
the true nature of poetry. The drive
to connect. The dream of a common language.”
—Adrienne Rich (b. 1929)