Famous quotes containing the words riddle and/or poem:
“What a wonderful faculty is memory!—the most mysterious and inexplicable in the great riddle of life; that plastic tablet on which the Almighty registers with unerring fidelity the records of being, making it the depository of all our words, thoughts and deeds—this faithful witness against us for good or evil.”
—Susanna Moodie (1803–1885)
“The great poem must have the stamp of greatness as well as its essence.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)