Famous quotes containing the word springs:
“At Eutaw Springs the valiant died;
Their limbs with dust are covered oer
Weep on, ye springs, your tearful tide;
How many heroes are no more!”
—Philip Freneau (17521832)
“A human action becomes genuinely important when it springs from the soil of a clear-sighted awareness of the temporality and the ephemerality of everything human. It is only this awareness that can breathe any greatness into an action.”
—Václav Havel (b. 1936)
“Our hearts seemed safe in our breasts and sang to the
Light
The marrow in the bone
We dreamed was safe . . . the blood in the veins, the
sap in the tree
Were springs of Deity.”
—Dame Edith Sitwell (18871964)
Related Subjects
Related Phrases
Related Words