Gold Sovereign

Famous quotes containing the words gold and/or sovereign:

    ““The idols have seen lots of poverty,
    Snakes and gold and lice,
    But not the truth....””
    —Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)

    “Nota: man is the intelligence of his soil,
    The sovereign ghost. As such, the Socrates
    Of snails, musician of pears, principium
    And lex. Sed quæritur: is this same wig
    Of things, this nincompated pedagogue,
    Preceptor to the sea?”
    —Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)