Peer Names

Famous quotes containing the words peer and/or names:

“All nature is a temple where the alive
Pillars breathe often a tremor of mixed words;
Man wanders in a forest of accords
That peer familiarly from each ogive.”
—Allen Tate (1899–1979)

“At present our only true names are nicknames.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)