Secret Negotiations

Famous quotes containing the words secret and/or negotiations:

“What’s good need not be secret, and what’s secret is not good.”
—Chinese proverb.

“But always and sometimes questioning the old modes
And the new wondering, the poem, growing up through the floor,
Standing tall in tubers, invading and smashing the ritual
Parlor, demands to be met on its own terms now,
Now that the preliminary negotiations are at last over.”
—John Ashbery (b. 1927)