Famous quotes containing the words eagle, glass and/or works:
“Being wakeful for her sake,
Remembering what she had,
What eagle look still shows,
While up from my hearts root
So great a sweetness flows
I shake from head to foot.”
—William Butler Yeats (18651939)
“You doubt we read the stars on high,
Nathless we read your fortunes true;
The stars may hide in the upper sky,
But without glass we fathom you.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (18031882)
“All his works might well enough be embraced under the title of one of them, a good specimen brick, On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History. Of this department he is the Chief Professor in the Worlds University, and even leaves Plutarch behind.”
—Henry David Thoreau (18171862)
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