Kinetic Energies

Famous quotes containing the words kinetic and/or energies:

“The poem has a social effect of some kind whether or not the poet wills it to have. It has kinetic force, it sets in motion ... [ellipsis in source] elements in the reader that would otherwise be stagnant.”
—Denise Levertov (b. 1923)

“Railroad iron is a magician’s rod, in its power to evoke the sleeping energies of land and water.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)