Poor High Altitude

Famous quotes containing the words poor, high and/or altitude:

    “Someone is dead.
    Even the trees know it,
    those poor old dancers who come on lewdly,
    all pea-green scarfs and spine pole.”
    —Anne Sexton (1928–1974)

    “I wandered lonely as a cloud
    That floats on high o’er vales and hills,
    When all at once I saw a crowd,
    A host, of golden daffodils;”
    —William Wordsworth (1770–1850)

    “On a level plain, simple mounds look like hills; and the insipid flatness of our present bourgeoisie is to be measured by the altitude of its “great intellects.””
    —Karl Marx (1818–1883)