North Pillar

Famous quotes containing the words north and/or pillar:

    “Ah, how shall you know the dreary sorrow at the North Gate,
    With Li Po’s name forgotten,
    And we guardsmen fed to the tigers.”
    —Li Po (701–762)

    “Fame’s pillar here, at last, we set,
    Out-during marble, brass, or jet,”
    —Robert Herrick (1591–1674)