Tail/function

Famous quotes containing the words tail and/or function:

    Yet I suppose what seems to us confusion
    Is not confusion, but the form of forms,
    The serpent’s tail stuck down the serpent’s throat....
    Robert Frost (1874–1963)

    Nobody seriously questions the principle that it is the function of mass culture to maintain public morale, and certainly nobody in the mass audience objects to having his morale maintained.
    Robert Warshow (1917–1955)