synthesis quotes

Held in a lunar synthesis, Whispering lunar incantations Dissolve the floors of memory And all its clear relations Its divisions and precisions.

-T(homas) S(tearns) Eliot
  Prufrock and Other Observations,'Rhapsody on a Windy Night'.

   Poetry is the achievement of the synthesis of hyacinths and biscuits.

- Carl Sandburg
  'Poetry Considered', in the Atlantic Monthly, Mar.

Afew weeksago Ihad a revelation and told my secretary that I could give him a synthesis of forty-six years of living with economic policy. It is: 'Economic policy is random with respect to the performance of the American economy, but, thank God, there isn't much of it.'

- Herbert Stein
  Washington Bedtime Stories.