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)

    “Honour, thou first didst close
    The spring of all delight,
    Denying water to the amorous thirst;”
    —Torquato Tasso (1544–1595)