Dark Horse Classics

Famous quotes containing the words dark, horse and/or classics:

    ““You will go a long journey,
    In a strange bed take rest,”
    And a dark girl will kiss you....”
    —Philip Larkin (1922–1986)

    “A marchant was therwith a forked berd,
    In mottelee, and hye on horse he sat,
    Upon his heed a Flaundryssh bevere hat,
    His bootes clasped faire and fetisly.
    His resons he spak ful solempnely,”
    —Geoffrey Chaucer (1340?–1400)

    “For what are the classics but the noblest thoughts of man? They are the only oracles which are not decayed, and there are such answers to the most modern inquiry in them as Delphi and Dodona never gave. We might as well omit to study Nature because she is old.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)