Famous quotes containing the words august, world and/or war:
“I saw the spiders marching through the air,
Swimming from tree to tree that mildewed day
In latter August when the hay
Came creaking to the barn.”
—Robert Lowell (1917–1977)
“In morals, truth is but little prized when it is a mere sentiment, and only attains its full value when realized in the world as fact.”
—Ernest Renan (1823–1892)
“Your length in clay’s now competent,
A long war disturbed your mind;”
—John Webster (c. 1580–1638)