Famous quotes containing the words broad, subject and/or fields:
“Heavily hangs the broad sunflower
Over its grave i the earth so chilly;
Heavily hangs the hollyhock,
Heavily hangs the tiger-lily.”
—Alfred Tennyson (18091892)
“The writer, like a swimmer caught by an undertow, is borne in an unexpected direction. He is carried to a subject which has awaited hima subject sometimes no part of his conscious plan. Reality, the reality of sensation, has accumulated where it was least sought. To write is to be capturedcaptured by some experience to which one may have given hardly a thought.”
—Elizabeth Bowen (18991973)
“Ah happy hills! ah pleasing shade!
Ah fields beloved in vain!
Where once my careless childhood strayd,”
—Thomas Gray (17161771)
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