Stored Awaiting Repair

Famous quotes containing the words stored, awaiting and/or repair:

    “After eleven years I was composing
    Love-letters again, broaching the word ‘wife’
    Like a stored cask,”
    —Seamus Heaney (b. 1939)

    “As if, as if, as if the disparate halves
    Of things were waiting in a betrothal known
    To none, awaiting espousal to the sound
    Of right joining, a music of ideas, the burning
    And breeding and bearing birth of harmony,
    The final relation, the marriage of the rest.”
    —Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)

    “Better to repair the pen after the sheep have escaped than not at all.”
    —Chinese proverb.