Famous quotes containing the words herbert and/or gray:
“I got me flowers to straw thy way;
I got me boughs off many a tree;
But thou wast up by break of day,
And brought’st thy sweets along with thee.”
—George Herbert (1593–1633)
“Freud’s eye was the microscope of potency.
By fortune, his gray ghost may meditate
The spirits of all the impotent dead, seen clear,
And quickly understand, without their flesh,
How truly they had not been what they were.”
—Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)
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