Van Wert High

Famous quotes containing the words van, wert and/or high:

    “I’m a junkie. I like drugs, I like the whole lifestyle, but it just didn’t pay off.”
    —Gus Van Sant, U.S. screenwriter, and Dan Yost. Bob Hughes (Matt Dillon)

    “Rhodora! if the sages ask thee why
    This charm is wasted on the earth and sky,
    Tell them, dear, that if eyes were made for seeing,
    Then Beauty is its own excuse for being:
    Why thou wert there, O rival of the rose!
    I never thought to ask, I never knew:
    But, in my simple ignorance, suppose
    The self-same Power that brought me there brought you.”
    —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

    “Rather than words comes the thought of high windows:
    The sun-comprehending glass,
    And beyond it, the deep blue air, that shows
    Nothing, and is nowhere, and is endless.”
    —Philip Larkin (1922–1986)