Famous quotes containing the words test and/or range:
“Utopias are presented for our inspection as a critique of the human state. If they are to be treated as anything but trivial exercises of the imagination. I suggest there is a simple test we can apply.... We must forget the whole paraphernalia of social description, demonstration, expostulation, approbation, condemnation. We have to say to ourselves, How would I myself live in this proposed society? How long would it be before I went stark staring mad?”
—William Golding (b. 1911)
“They didnt know
how
my heart woke
to a range and measure
of song
I hadnt known.”
—Hilda Doolittle (18861961)
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