Pinnacle Mountain State

Famous quotes containing the words pinnacle, mountain and/or state:

    “Fives, and tens,
    Threes and fours and twelves,
    All the volte face of decimals,
    The whirligig of dozens and the pinnacle of seven.”
    —D.H. (David Herbert)

    “And though in tinsel chain and popcorn rope
    My tree, a captive in your window bay,
    Has lost its footing on my mountain slope
    And lost the stars of heaven, may, oh, may
    The symbol star it lifts against your ceiling
    Help me accept its fate with Christmas feeling.”
    —Robert Frost (1874–1963)

    “A work can become modern only if it is first postmodern. Postmodernism thus understood is not modernism at its end but in the nascent state, and this state is constant.”
    —Jean François Lyotard (b. 1924)