Famous quotes containing the words hope and/or classic:
“The hope that suddenly overflows the cesspool?
The love that goes down the drain like spit?”
—Anne Sexton (1928–1974)
“One classic American landscape haunts all of American literature. It is a picture of Eden, perceived at the instant of history when corruption has just begun to set in. The serpent has shown his scaly head in the undergrowth. The apple gleams on the tree. The old drama of the Fall is ready to start all over again.”
—Jonathan Raban (b. 1942)
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