Famous quotes containing the words alfred, moore and/or house:
“Not out of those, on whom systems of education have exhausted their culture, comes the helpful giant to destroy the old or to build the new, but out of unhandselled savage nature, out of terrible Druids and Berserkirs, come at last Alfred and Shakespeare.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (18031882)
“The Irish say your trouble is their
trouble and your
joy their joy? I wish
I could believe it;
I am troubled, Im dissatisfied, Im Irish.”
—Marianne Moore (18871972)
“You may give them your love but not your thoughts.
For they have their own thoughts.
You may house their bodies but not their souls,
For their souls dwell in the house of tomorrow, which you cannot visit, not even in your dreams.”
—Kahlil Gibran (18831931)
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