Older and Far Away

Famous quotes containing the words far away, older and and/or older:

“‘Way down upon de Swanee ribber,
Far, far away,
Dere’s where my heart is turning ebber,
Dere’s where de old folks stay.”
—Stephen Collins Foster (1826–1884)

“Poor Faulkner. Does he really think big emotions come from big words? He thinks I don’t know the ten-dollar words. I know them all right. But there are older and simpler and better words, and those are the ones I use.”
—Ernest Hemingway (1899–1961)

“It is poverty’s speech that seeks us out the most.
It is older than the oldest speech of Rome.
This is the tragic accent of the scene.”
—Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)