Winter Retreat

Famous quotes containing the words winter and/or retreat:

    “The sky seemed so small that winter day,
    A dirty light on a lifeless world,
    Contracted like a withered stick.”
    —Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)

    “I am in earnest—I will not equivocate—I will not excuse—I will not retreat a single inch—and I will be heard!”
    —William Lloyd Garrison (1805–1879)