Famous quotes containing the words azure, clouds and/or temple:
“Underneath Day’s azure eyes,
Ocean’s nursling, Venice lies,—
A peopled labyrinth of walls,
Amphitrite’s destined halls,”
—Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792–1822)
“In such a night, when passing clouds give place,
Or thinly veil the heaven’s mysterious face;
When in some river, overhung with green,
The waving moon and trembling leaves are seen;”
—Anne Finch, Countess Of Winchilsea (1661–1720)
“I have often felt as though I had inherited all the defiance and all the passions with which our ancestors defended their Temple and could gladly sacrifice my life for one great moment in history. And at the same time I always felt so helpless and incapable of expressing these ardent passions even by a word or a poem.”
—Sigmund Freud (1856–1939)