Whistle/history

Famous quotes containing the words whistle and/or history:

“In Boston serpents whistle at the cold.”
—Robert Lowell (1917–1977)

“In the history of the human mind, these glowing and ruddy fables precede the noonday thoughts of men, as Aurora the sun’s rays. The matutine intellect of the poet, keeping in advance of the glare of philosophy, always dwells in this auroral atmosphere.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)