Famous quotes containing the words solon, springs and/or town:
“He will wish and desire to learn as long as he lives, as Solon says.”
—Plato (c. 427–347 B.C.)
“Our hearts seemed safe in our breasts and sang to the
Light—
The marrow in the bone
We dreamed was safe . . . the blood in the veins, the
sap in the tree
Were springs of Deity.”
—Dame Edith Sitwell (1887–1964)
“Keen instruments, strung to a vast precision
Bind town to town and dream to ticking dream.”
—Hart Crane (1899–1932)