Operating Upon Quotes
- A poem is this:/A nuance of sound/delicately operating/upon a cataract of sense/...the particulars/of a song waking/upon a bed of sound. — William Carlos Williams
- Science manipulates things and gives up living in them. It makes its own limited models of things; operating upon these indices or variables to effect… — Maurice Merleau-Ponty
- The Word of God will be to you a bulwark and a high tower, a castle of defense against the foe. Oh, see to it… — Charles Spurgeon