Familiar Spirits

Famous quotes containing the words familiar and/or spirits:

    For anyone addicted to reading commonplace books ... finding a good new one is much like enduring a familiar recurrence of malaria, with fever, fits of shaking, strange dreams. Unlike a truly paludismic ordeal, however, the symptoms felt while savoring a collection of one man’s pet quotations are voluptuously enjoyable ...
    M.F.K. Fisher (1908–1992)

    ‘But they are dead; those two are dead!
    Their spirits are in heaven!’
    ‘Twas throwing words away; for still
    The little maid would have her will,
    And said, ‘Nay, we are seven!’
    William Wordsworth (1770–1850)