Ernest Vincent Wright Wotton

Famous quotes containing the words ernest, vincent, wright and/or wotton:

    For it’s home, dearie, home—it’s home I want to be.
    Our topsails are hoisted, and we’ll away to sea.
    O, the oak and the ash and the bonnie birken tree
    They’re all growing green in the old countrie.
    —William Ernest Henley (1849–1903)

    Euclid alone
    Has looked on Beauty bare. Fortunate they
    Who, though once only and then but far away,
    Have heard her massive sandal set on stone.
    —Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892–1950)

    Panting, begging I clutched childlike, clutched to the hot sides of
    death.
    Now I am dry bones and my face a stony skull staring in yellow
    surprise at the sun. . . .
    —Richard Wright (1808–1860)

    You common people of the skies,
    What are you when the moon doth rise?
    —Sir Henry Wotton (1568–1639)