Drum Machine Called

Famous quotes containing the words drum, machine and/or called:

“Only the drum is confident, it thinks the world has not changed;”
—Robinson Jeffers (1887–1962)

“The cycle of the machine is now coming to an end. Man has learned much in the hard discipline and the shrewd, unflinching grasp of practical possibilities that the machine has provided in the last three centuries: but we can no more continue to live in the world of the machine than we could live successfully on the barren surface of the moon.”
—Lewis Mumford (1895–1990)

“Who called love conquering,
When its sweet flower
So easily dries among the sour
Lanes of the living?”
—Philip Larkin (1922–1986)