Bitter Gold

Famous quotes containing the words bitter and/or gold:

    I had this thought a while ago,
    “My darling cannot understand
    What I have done, or what would do
    In this blind bitter land.”
    And I grew weary of the sun
    William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)

    After reading Howitt’s account of the Australian gold-diggings one evening,... I asked myself why I might not be washing some gold daily, though it were only the finest particles,—why I might not sink a shaft down to the gold within me, and work that mine.... At any rate, I might pursue some path, however solitary and narrow and crooked, in which I could walk with love and reverence.
    Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)