Moment

Famous quotes containing the word moment:

“Single look has drained the breast,
Single moment years confessed.
The duration of a glance
Is the term of convenance.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

“The soul is not a soul,
Has no secret, is small, and it fits
Its hollow perfectly: its room, our moment of attention.”
—John Ashbery (b. 1927)

“For a transitory enchanted moment man must have held his breath in the presence of this continent, compelled into an aesthetic contemplation he neither understood nor desired, face to face for the last time in history with something commensurate to his capacity for wonder.”
—F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896–1940)