Southern Land

Famous quotes containing the words southern land, southern and/or land:

    “If the study of his images
    Is the study of man, this image of Saturday,
    This Italian symbol, this Southern landscape, is like
    A waking, as in images we awake,
    Within the very object that we seek,
    Participants of its being.”
    —Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)

    “... so far from thinking that a slaveholder is bound by the immoral and unconstitutional laws of the Southern States, we hold that he is solemnly bound as a man, as an American, to break them, and that immediately and openly ...”
    —Angelina Grimké (1805–1879)

    “Over the land freckled with snow half-thawed
    The speculating rooks at their nests cawed”
    —Edward Thomas (1878–1917)