Fountain of Youth/ponce de Le%C3%B3n and Florida

Famous quotes containing the words fountain of, fountain, youth, ponce and/or florida:

    “From the very fountain of enchantment there arises a taste of bitterness to spread anguish amongst the flowers.”
    —Lucretius (Titus Lucretius Carus)

    “Don’t say, don’t say there is no water
    to solace the dryness at our hearts.
    I have seen
    the fountain springing out of the rock wall
    and you drinking there.”
    —Denise Levertov (b. 1923)

    “I’ve never understood why people consider youth a time of freedom and joy. It’s probably because they have forgotten their own.”
    —Margaret Atwood (b. 1939)

    “I want to go back, like Ponce de Leon, to the Fountain.”
    —Lyndon Baines Johnson (1908–1973)

    “In Florida consider the flamingo,
    Its color passion but its neck a question.”
    —Robert Penn Warren (1905–1989)