Gliding Phase

Famous quotes containing the words gliding and/or phase:

    I stand on a bridge of one span
    and see this calm act, this gathering up
    of life, of spring water
    and the Muse gliding ...
    Denise Levertov (b. 1923)

    The problem of the twentieth century is the problem of the color-line—the relation of the darker to the lighter races of men in Asia and Africa, in America and the islands of the sea. It was a phase of this problem that caused the Civil War.
    —W.E.B. (William Edward Burghardt)