Refused/influences

Famous quotes containing the words refused and/or influences:

    all that we might have been,
    all that we were—fire, tears,
    wit, taste, martyred ambition—
    stirs like the memory of refused adultery
    the drained and flagging bosom of our middle years.
    Adrienne Rich (b. 1929)

    The tourist who moves about to see and hear and open himself to all the influences of the places which condense centuries of human greatness is only a man in search of excellence.
    Max Lerner (b. 1902)