Eagle/description

Famous quotes containing the words eagle and/or description:

    “Sleep softly . . . eagle forgotten . . . under the stone.”
    —Vachel Lindsay (1879–1931)

    “Do not require a description of the countries towards which you sail. The description does not describe them to you, and to- morrow you arrive there, and know them by inhabiting them.”
    —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)