Neutral Spirits

Famous quotes containing the words neutral and/or spirits:

    “The seashore is a sort of neutral ground, a most advantageous point from which to contemplate this world. It is even a trivial place. The waves forever rolling to the land are too far-traveled and untamable to be familiar. Creeping along the endless beach amid the sun-squall and the foam, it occurs to us that we, too, are the product of sea-slime.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    “‘But they are dead; those two are dead!
    Their spirits are in heaven!’
    ‘Twas throwing words away; for still
    The little maid would have her will,
    And said, ‘Nay, we are seven!’”
    —William Wordsworth (1770–1850)