Evanescent Waves

Famous quotes containing the words evanescent and/or waves:

    “The thing about Proust is his combination of the utmost sensibility with the utmost tenacity. He searches out these butterfly shades to the last grain. He is as tough as catgut and as evanescent as a butterfly’s bloom.”
    —Virginia Woolf (1882–1941)

    “Flow, flow the waves hated,
    Accursed, adored,
    The waves of mutation:
    No anchorage is.”
    —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)