Shadow Volumes

Famous quotes containing the words shadow and/or volumes:

    “Mark where the pressing wind shoots javelin-like
    Its skeleton shadow on the broad-backed wave!
    Here is a fitting spot to dig Love’s grave;”
    —George Meredith (1828–1909)

    “Perhaps it is the lowest of the qualities of an orator, but it is, on so many occasions, of chief importance,—a certain robust and radiant physical health; or—shall I say?—great volumes of animal heat.”
    —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)