Western World

Famous quotes containing the words western world, western and/or world:

    “trying to live in the terrible western world

    here where to love at all’s to be a politician, as to love a poem
    is pretentious,”
    —Frank O’Hara (1926–1966)

    “O western orb sailing the heaven,
    Now I know what you must have meant as a month since I walked,
    As I walked in silence the transparent shadowy night,”
    —Walt Whitman (1819–1892)

    “Never mind the ridicule, never mind the defeat: up again, old heart!—it seems to say,—there is victory yet for all justice; and the true romance which the world exists to realize, will be the transformation of genius into practical power.”
    —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)