Famous quotes containing the words high, level and/or public:
“Whatever is felt upon the page without being specifically named therethat, one might say, is created. It is the inexplicable presence of the thing not named, of the overtone divined by the ear but not heard by it, the verbal mood, the emotional aura of the fact or the thing or the deed, that gives high quality to the novel or the drama, as well as to poetry itself.”
—Willa Cather (18731947)
“Let still the woman take
An elder than herself. So wears she to him;
So sways she level in her husbands heart.”
—William Shakespeare (15641616)
“And this our life, exempt from public haunt,
Finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks,
Sermons in stones, and good in everything.”
—William Shakespeare (15641616)
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