Birney/decline

Famous quotes containing the words birney and/or decline:

“Unreal, tall as a myth,”
—Earle Birney (b. 1904)

“But only that soul can be my friend which I encounter on the line of my own march, that soul to which I do not decline, and which does not decline me, but, native of the same celestial latitude, repeats in its own all my experience.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)