Famous quotes containing the words public and/or life:
“Unjust attacks on public men do them more good than unmerited praise.”
—Rutherford Birchard Hayes (1822–1893)
“The poem refreshes life so that we share,
For a moment, the first idea . . . It satisfies
Belief in an immaculate beginning
And sends us, winged by an unconscious will,
To an immaculate end. We move between these points:
From that ever-early candor to its late plural....”
—Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)