Famous quotes containing the words laughing, man and/or task:
“As if that hand
squeezing crow’s blood
against a white sky
beside an idiot’s laughing face
were real.”
—Denise Levertov (b. 1923)
“And each man is marked for toil,
Much labour is his fate,
Nor is there any new hurt
That may be added to the race.”
—Hilda Doolittle (1886–1961)
“Here is what sometimes happened to me: after spending the first part of the night at my desk—that part when night trudges heavily uphill—I would emerge from the trance of my task at the exact moment when night had reached the summit and was teetering on that crest, ready to roll down into the haze of dawn....”
—Vladimir Nabokov (1899–1977)