Vase Quotes
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You may break, you may shatter the vase, if you will,But the scent of the roses will hang round it still.
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More Vase Quotes
Dashiell Hammett took murder out of theVenetian vase and dropped it into the alley.
Raymond Chandler— On the moving of murder mysteries from the English country house to more realistic areas. Quoted in Contemporary Authors (1979).
Some poems have form as a tree has form and some as water poured into a vase.
— Quoted in Patricia C Willis (ed) The Complete Poems of Marianne Moore (1986).
To watch him fumbling with our rich and delicate English language is like seeing a Se' vres vase in the hands of a chimpanzee.
— Of Sir Stephen Spender. Quoted by Eric Pace in Spender's obituary in the NewYorkTimes,18 Jul1995.
"Man axalotl here below but I ask very little. Some fragments of Pamphylides, a Choctaw blood-mask, the prose of Scaliger the Elder, a painting by Fuseli, an occasional visit to the all-in wrestling, or to my meretrix; a cook who can produce a passable 'poulet à la Khmer,' a Pong vase. Simple tastes, you will agree, and it is my simple habit to indulge them!"
cyril connolly— "Told in Gath"
Poetical spaces too can be painted like a vase.
guity novin— Setareh-e-Cinema, (1973) Vol. 4, Page 51
But it is not for the perfect vase or the polished gem to choose their owners.
mary renault— p. 29 (The Persian Boy (1972))
Driving a Porsche in London is like bringing a Ming vase to a football game.
douglas adams— As quoted in Don't Panic: The Official Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy Companion (1988) by Neil Gaiman
When that amusing "Pauli effect" of the overturned vase occurred, on the occasion of the founding of the Jung Institute, I had the immediate and vivid impression that I should " pour out water inside " ( to use the symbolic language that I have acquired from you). Then when the connection between psychology and physics took up a relatively large part of your talk, it became even more clear to me what I was to do. The outcome of all this is the enclosed essay.
wolfgang pauli— Letter to Carl Jung (16 June 1948), referring to an incident where a vase fell over, apparently spontaneously as he entered a room, and an essay: Moderne Beispiele zur 'Hintergrunds-physik' (Modern Examples of 'Background Physics' ). Jung and Pauli worked together in developing theories of Synchronicity.
‘The flower,’ said Bernard, ‘the red carnation that stood in the vase on the table of the restaurant when we dined together with Percival, is become a six-sided flower; made of six lives.’
virginia woolf— section VIII
But lilies, stolen from grassy mold, No more curlèd state unfold, Translated to a vase of gold; In burning throne though they keep still Serenities unthawed and chill.
Francis Thompson— Francis Thompson, Gilded Gold, Stanza 1.
Long, long be my heart with such memories fill'd! Like the vase, in which roses have once been distill'd You may break, you may shatter the vase if you will, But the scent of the roses will hang round it still.
thomas moore— Thomas Moore, Farewell! but Whenever you Welcome the Hour.
A vase of unbaked clay, when broken, may be remoulded, but not a baked one.
— Leonardo da Vinci,The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci, tr. Jean Paul Richter, XX
