Built

Famous quotes containing the word built:

    They built by rivers and at night the water
    Running past windows comforted their sorrow;
    —W.H. (Wystan Hugh)

    Men of extraordinary success, in their honest moments, have always sung, “Not unto us, not unto us.” According to the faith of their times, they have built altars to Fortune, or to Destiny, or to St. Julian. Their success lay in their parallelism to the course of thought, which found in them an unobstructed channel; and the wonders of which they were the visible conductors seemed to their eye their deed.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

    Others built beautifully and well,
    but fell
    to lie
    like a bleached hull;
    other sea-cities have faltered
    and striven with the tide.
    Hilda Doolittle (1886–1961)