Depth Scales

Famous quotes containing the words depth and/or scales:

    “Now as at all times I can see in the mind’s eye,
    In their stiff, painted clothes, the pale unsatisfied ones
    Appear and disappear in the blue depth of the sky”
    —William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)

    “In what camera do you taste
    Poison, in what darkness set
    Glittering scales and point
    The tipping tongue?”
    —Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)