Realms

Famous quotes containing the word realms:

    “I shall be a benefactor if I conquer some realms from the night, if I report to the gazettes anything transpiring about us at that season worthy of their attention,—if I can show men that there is some beauty awake while they are asleep,—if I add to the domains of poetry.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    “Here thou, great Anna! whom three realms obey,
    Dost sometimes counsel take—and sometimes tea.”
    —Alexander Pope (1688–1744)

    “There is a god within us, and the heavens
    Have intercourse with earth; from realms above
    That spirit comes.”
    —Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso)