Calm

Famous quotes containing the word calm:

“The spirit of the world, the great calm presence of the creator, comes not forth to the sorceries of opium or of wine. The sublime vision comes to the pure and simple soul in a clean and chaste body.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

“There was calm rapture in the way she spoke
Perhaps I would get over the way the joke
Always turned against me, in the end.”
—John Ashbery (b. 1927)

“An inebriated elderly gentleman in the last depths of shabbiness... played the calm and virtuous old men.”
—Charles Dickens (1812–1870)