Mental Essence Trapped

Famous quotes containing the words mental, essence and/or trapped:

    “She, her head back, waited
    Barbarous the stalking tide;
    Her, nor balked nor sated
    But plunged into the wide
    Area of mental ire,
    Lay at her wandering side.”
    —Allen Tate (1899–1979)

    “It is the essence of poetry to spring, like the rainbow daughter of Wonder, from the invisible, to abolish the past, and refuse all history.”
    —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

    “You have been trapped in the inescapable net of ruin by your own want of sense.”
    —Aeschylus (525–456 B.C.)