Famous quotes containing the words pen, register and/or act:
“Then my verse I dishonour, my pictures despise,
My person degrade & my temper chastise;
And the pen is my terror, the pencil my shame;
And my talents I bury, and dead is my fame.”
—William Blake (17571827)
“Never to walk from the stations lamps and laurels
Carrying my fathers lean old leather case
Crumbling like the register at the hotel....”
—Philip Larkin (19221986)
“The act of birth is the first experience of anxiety, and thus the source and prototype of the affect of anxiety.”
—Sigmund Freud (18561939)
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