Penn Mountains Council

Famous quotes containing the words penn, mountains and/or council:

    “the pomp
    Of pain swells like the Indies, or a plum”
    —Robert Penn Warren (1905–1989)

    “It is the sorrow; shall it melt? Ah, water
    Would gush, flush, green these mountains and these valleys
    And we rebuild our cities, not dream of islands.”
    —W.H. (Wystan Hugh)

    “Daughter to that good Earl, once President
    Of England’s Council and her Treasury,
    Who lived in both, unstain’d with gold or fee,
    And left them both, more in himself content.

    Till the sad breaking of that Parliament
    Broke him, as that dishonest victory
    At Chaeronea, fatal to liberty,
    Kill’d with report that old man eloquent;—”
    —John Milton (1608–1674)