Diurnal Tide

Famous quotes containing the words diurnal and/or tide:

    No motion has she now, no force;
    She neither hears nor sees;
    Rolled round in earth’s diurnal course,
    With rocks, and stones, and trees.
    William Wordsworth (1770–1850)

    The poet who walks by moonlight is conscious of a tide in his thought which is to be referred to lunar influence.
    Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)