Silent Film/elements 1894 - 1929

Famous quotes containing the words silent, film and/or elements:

    “Why should she give her bounty to the dead?
    What is divinity if it can come
    Only in silent shadows and in dreams?”
    —Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)

    “Film music should have the same relationship to the film drama that somebody’s piano playing in my living room has to the book I am reading.”
    —Igor Stravinsky (1882–1971)

    “In spite of all their kind some elements of worth
    With difficulty persist here and there on earth.”
    —Hugh MacDiarmid (1892–1978)