fabric quotes

Let us pick up again these lost strands and weave them again into the fabric of America†sort out the music from the sounds and again respond to the trumpet and the steady drum.

- EugeneJ(oseph) McCarthy
  Speech to Conference of Concerned Democrats, 2 Dec.

Nowhere have I encountered such a dull, monotonous fabric of life as here in America. Here boredom reaches its peak.

- Henry Valentine Miller
  The Air-Conditioned Nightmare, preface.

He his fabric of the heavens Hath left to their disputes, perhaps to move His laughter at their quaint opinions wide Hereafter, when they come to model heaven And calculate the stars, how they will wield The mighty frame, how build, unbuild, contrive To save appearances, how gird the sphere With centric and eccentric scribbled o'er, Cycle and epicycle, orb in orb.

-John Milton
  Paradise Lost (published1667), bk.8, l.76^84.

I am governed by the pull of the sentence as the pull of a fabric isgoverned by gravity.

- Marianne Craig Moore
Quoted in Louis Untermeyer 'Five Famous Poetesses', in Ladies' Home Journal, May1964.