High Banked Dirt

Famous quotes containing the words high, banked and/or dirt:

    “To me this world is all one continued vision of fancy or imagination, and I feel flattered when I am told so. What is it sets Homer, Virgil and Milton in so high a rank of art? Why is Bible more entertaining and instructive than any other book? Is it not because they are addressed to the imagination, which is spiritual sensation, and but mediately to the understanding or reason?”
    —William Blake (1757–1827)

    “The winter owl banked just in time to pass
    And save herself from breaking window glass.”
    —Robert Frost (1874–1963)

    “This mangled, smutted semi-world hacked out
    Of dirt . . . It is not possible for the moon
    To blot this with its dove-winged blendings.”
    —Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)