Famous quotes containing the words prayer and/or flags:
“The man who says his evening prayer is a captain posting his sentinels. He can sleep.”
—Charles Baudelaire (1821–1867)
“The flags are natures newly found.
Rifles grow sharper on the sight.
There is a rumble of autumnal marching,
From which no soft sleeve relieves us.
Fate is the present desperado.”
—Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)