Famous quotes containing the words blood and/or nations:
“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)
“Firm in our beliefs without dismay,
In any game the nations want to play.
A golden age of poetry and power
Of which this noondays the beginning hour.”
—Robert Frost (18741963)