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)

    “Art has a double face, of expression and illusion, just like science has a double face: the reality of error and the phantom of truth.”
    —René Daumal (1908–1944)

    “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)