Unexpected Shift Quotes

And Seaman, just like a falling oak, manages to change direction.

Now some alien force seems to have come and captured the Dodgers. I don't know what happened to my Dodgers.

I majored in geology in college but have majored in Herbert Hoover ever since.

Strange, i thought i knew you well, thought i had read the sky, thought i had seen a change in your eyes.

Nothing happens for ages, and then all the changes come at once.

When I wrote 'Mushaboom', I was living in the second verse, but I suddenly found myself in the first.

Dawn seemed to follow midnight with indecent haste.

Everything seems to have been turned upside-down, but in a good way.

We have crossed the bridge to this transition in only 24 hours, in complete civility and complete calm. That has left the whole world surprised.

It’s strange how things can change back as suddenly as they changed originally. When one thing happens and suddenly, things are back to normal.

We awoke one morning in September, and the world lurched on its axis.

There you are, diligently swimming a straight line, minding the form of your strokes, when you look up and see, always a shock, the currents you can't even feel have pulled you off course.

When you're reading, you're laughing and not quite noticing what's happening. One second you're still kind of chuckling, and then all of sudden you're in the third act of the book and in this very dark and claustrophobic place.

It was like Mama suddenly realized I was good, that she didn't have to apologize for me. It was the strangest feeling. One minute I was on stage with my mother, the next moment I was on stage with Judy Garland. One minute she smiled at me, and the next minute she was like the lioness that owned the stage and suddenly found somebody invading her territory. The killer instinct of a performer had come out in her.

I'd say that the middle stanza is closer: that's the place where the poem ranges unexpectedly into a different realm.