Famous quotes containing the words variable, geometry and/or wings:
“There is not so variable a thing in nature as a ladys head-dress.”
—Joseph Addison (16721719)
“I am present at the sowing of the seed of the world. With a geometry of sunbeams, the soul lays the foundations of nature.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (18031882)
“In the wings the tenor hungers
For the heroines convulsive kiss, and Faust
Moves forward, no longer young, reappearing
And reappearing for the last time. The opera
Faust would no longer need its phantom.
On the bare, sunlit stage the hungers could begin.”
—John Ashbery (b. 1927)
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