Thin Ideal Internalization

Famous quotes containing the words thin and/or ideal:

    “sullen fun

    Savage as childhood’s thin harmonious tear:
    O fountain, bosom source undying-dead
    Replenish me the spring of love and fear”
    —Allen Tate (1899–1979)

    “It is equally impossible to forget our Friends, and to make them answer to our ideal. When they say farewell, then indeed we begin to keep them company. How often we find ourselves turning our backs on our actual Friends, that we may go and meet their ideal cousins.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)