Blown Glass Vessels

Famous quotes containing the words blown, glass and/or vessels:

    “They change, and we, who pass like foam,
    Like dust blown through the streets of Rome,
    Change ever, too; we have no home,”
    —John Masefield (1878–1967)

    “Vast chain of Being, which from God began,
    Natures aethereal, human, angel, man,
    Beast, bird, fish, insect! what no eye can see,
    No glass can reach; from Infinite to thee,
    From thee to Nothing!—”
    —Alexander Pope (1688–1744)

    “So near along life’s stream are the fountains of innocence and youth making fertile its sandy margin; and the voyageur will do well to replenish his vessels often at these uncontaminated sources.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)