Variable Geometry Wings

Famous quotes containing the words variable, geometry and/or wings:

    There is not so variable a thing in nature as a lady’s head-dress.
    Joseph Addison (1672–1719)

    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 (1803–1882)

    In the wings the tenor hungers
    For the heroine’s 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)