Sicilian Expedition/winter of 415 - Spring of 414 BC

Famous quotes containing the words expedition, winter and/or spring:

    “Writing a novel is not merely going on a shopping expedition across the border to an unreal land: it is hours and years spent in the factories, the streets, the cathedrals of the imagination.”
    —Janet Frame (b. 1924)

    “Over the winter glaciers,
    I see the summer glow,
    And, through the wild-piled snowdrift,
    The warm rosebuds below.”
    —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

    “For spring had entered the capital
    Walking on gigantic feet.
    The smell of witch hazel indoors
    Changed to narcissus in the street.”
    —John Ashbery (b. 1927)