Swan Electric Light

Famous quotes containing the words swan, electric and/or light:

    “I have seen this swan and
    I have seen you; I have seen ambition without
    understanding in a variety of forms.”
    —Marianne Moore (1887–1972)

    “Wisdom is like electricity. There is no permanently wise man, but men capable of wisdom, who, being put into certain company, or other favorable conditions, become wise for a short time, as glasses rubbed acquire electric power for a while.”
    —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

    “The march interrupted the light afternoon.
    Cars stopped dead, children began to run,
    As out of the street-shadow into the sun
    Discipline strode....”
    —Philip Larkin (1922–1986)