Famous quotes containing the words ernest, vincent, wright and/or wotton:
“O, there’s a wind a-blowing, a-blowing from the west,
And that of all the winds is the one I like the best,
For it blows at our backs, and it shakes our pennon free,
And it soon will blow us home to the old countrie.”
—William Ernest Henley (1849–1903)
“Lord, I do fear
Thou’st made the world too beautiful this year;
My soul is all but out of me,—let fall
No burning leaf; prithee, let no bird call.”
—Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892–1950)
“The present is the ever moving shadow that divides yesterday from tomorrow. In that lies hope.”
—Frank Lloyd Wright (1869–1959)
“He first deceas’d; She for a little tri’d
To live without him: lik’d it not, and di’d.”
—Sir Henry Wotton (1568–1639)