Distant Waters

Famous quotes containing the words distant and/or waters:

    When we come down into the distant village, visible from the mountain-top, the nobler inhabitants with whom we peopled it have departed, and left only vermin in its desolate streets. It is the imagination of poets which puts those brave speeches into the mouths of their heroes.
    Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    Come away, O human child!
    To the waters and the wild
    With a faery, hand in hand,
    For the world’s more full of weeping than you can understand.
    William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)