Famous quotes containing the words gold, dust and/or day:
“Burning hot is the ground, liquid gold is the air;
Whoever looks round sees Eternity there.”
—John Clare (1793–1864)
“not that horror was not, not that the killings did not continue,
not that I thought there was to be no more despair,
but that as if transparent all disclosed
an otherness that was blessèd, that was bliss.
I saw Paradise in the dust of the street.”
—Denise Levertov (b. 1923)
“Conversation is an art in which a man has all mankind for his competitors, for it is that which all are practising every day while they live.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)