Wings Elevated

Famous quotes containing the words wings and/or elevated:

    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)

    The actors today really need the whip hand. They’re so lazy. They haven’t got the sense of pride in their profession that the less socially elevated musical comedy and music hall people or acrobats have. The theater has never been any good since the actors became gentlemen.
    —W.H. (Wystan Hugh)