Perfect Black Body

Famous quotes containing the words perfect, black and/or body:

    “All forms of government symbolize an immortal government, common to all dynasties and independent of numbers, perfect where two men exist, perfect where there is only one man.”
    —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

    “Let the Brazos
    Freeze solid! And the Wabash turn to a leaden
    Cinder of ice! The MaraƱon is too tepid, we must
    Is freezing slowly in the blasts. The black Yonne
    Congeals nicely.”
    —John Ashbery (b. 1927)

    “The human body is not a thing or substance, given, but a continuous creation. The human body is an energy system ... which is never a complete structure; never static; is in perpetual inner self-construction and self-destruction; we destroy in order to make it new.”
    —Norman O. Brown (b. 1913)