Sule Pagoda Road

Famous quotes containing the words sule, pagoda and/or road:

    “I am a man upo the lan,
    An’ I am a silkie in the sea,
    And when I’m far and far frae lan,
    My dwelling is in Sule Skerrie.”
    —Unknown. The Great Silkie of Sule Skerry (l. 9–12)

    One is sick at heart of this pagoda worship. It is like the beating of gongs in a Hindoo subterranean temple.
    Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    It is a happy thing that there is no royal road to poetry. The world should know by this time that one cannot reach Parnassus except by flying thither.
    Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844–1889)