Posting Exit Numbers

Famous quotes containing the words posting, exit and/or numbers:

    “The man who says his evening prayer is a captain posting his sentinels. He can sleep.”
    —Charles Baudelaire (1821–1867)

    “Exit the mental moonlight, exit lex,
    Rex and principium, exit the whole
    Shebang. Exeunt omnes. Here was prose
    More exquisite than any tumbling verse:
    A still new continent in which to dwell.”
    —Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)

    “Out of the darkness where Philomela sat,
    Her fairy numbers issued. What then ailed me?
    My ears are called capacious but they failed me,
    Her classics registered a little flat!
    I rose, and venomously spat.”
    —John Crowe Ransom (1888–1974)