Summer Solstice Chapter

Famous quotes containing the words summer, solstice and/or chapter:

    “So summer comes in the end to these few stains
    And the rust and rot of the door through which she went.
    The house is empty. But here is where she sat
    To comb her dewy hair, a touchless light,
    Perplexed by its darker iridescences.”
    —Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)

    “Midnight, and the clock strikes. It is Christmas Day, the werewolves’ birthday, the door of the solstice still wide enough open to let them all slink through.”
    —Angela Carter (1940–1992)

    “Theory may be deliberate, as in a chapter on chemistry, or it may be second nature, as in the immemorial doctrine of ordinary enduring middle-sized physical objects.”
    —Willard Van Orman Quine (b. 1908)