Modern Double Basses

Famous quotes containing the words modern, double and/or basses:

    A modern author would have died in infancy in a ruder age.
    Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    The obsession with suicide is characteristic of the man who can neither live nor die, and whose attention never swerves from this double impossibility.
    E.M. Cioran (b. 1911)

    Of a green evening, clear and warm,
    She bathed in her still garden, while
    The red-eyed elders watching, felt

    The basses of their beings throb
    In witching chords, and their thin blood
    Pulse pizzicati of Hosanna.
    Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)