Oil/plot

Famous quotes containing the words oil and/or plot:

    “Eat what you can get.
    Where’s the salt
    in this dump of a village?
    And, Lucky Man,
    what’s the use
    of a salty thing
    if there’s no oil in it?”
    —Hla Stavhana (c. 50 A.D.)

    “Those blessed structures, plot and rhyme—
    why are they no help to me now
    I want to make
    something imagined, not recalled?”
    —Robert Lowell (1917–1977)