Famous quotes containing the words steel and/or mast:
“For when they meet, the tensile air
Like fine steel strains under the weight
Of messages that both hearts bear
Pure passion once, now purest hate....”
—Allen Tate (18991979)
“Alas for America as I must so often say, the ungirt, the diffuse, the profuse, procumbent, one wide ground juniper, out of which no cedar, no oak will rear up a mast to the clouds! It all runs to leaves, to suckers, to tendrils, to miscellany. The air is loaded with poppy, with imbecility, with dispersion, & sloth.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (18031882)
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