Fallen/books

Famous quotes containing the words fallen and/or books:

“Infancy is the perpetual Messiah, which comes into the arms of fallen men, and pleads with them to return to paradise.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

“She is foremost of those that I would hear praised.
I will talk no more of books or the long war
But walk by the dry thorn until I have found
Some beggar sheltering from the wind, and there
Manage the talk until her name come round.”
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)