Converted Main Signal

Famous quotes containing the words converted, main and/or signal:

    “Poetry is the supreme fiction, madame.
    Take the moral law and make a nave of it
    And from the nave build haunted heaven. Thus,
    The conscience is converted into palms,
    Like windy citherns hankering for hymns.”
    —Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)

    “When an Indian is burned, his body may be broiled, it may be no more than a beefsteak. What of that? They may broil his heart, but they do not therefore broil his courage,—his principles. Be of good courage! That is the main thing.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    “By day thy warning ringing bell to sound its notes,
    By night thy silent signal lamps to swing.”
    —Walt Whitman (1819–1892)