Famous quotes containing the words conversation and/or history:
“The conversation of prayers about to be said
Turns on the quick and the dead....”
—Dylan Thomas (1914–1953)
“In the history of the human mind, these glowing and ruddy fables precede the noonday thoughts of men, as Aurora the sun’s rays. The matutine intellect of the poet, keeping in advance of the glare of philosophy, always dwells in this auroral atmosphere.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)