Famous quotes containing the words carol, stream and/or fire:
“Then bowed down the highest tree
unto his mother’s hand;
Then she cried, “See, Joseph,
I have cherries at command.””
—Unknown. The Cherry-Tree Carol (l. 26–28)
“Is there not
An art, a music, and a stream of words
That shalt be life, the acknowledged voice of life?”
—William Wordsworth (1770–1850)
“Gradually I regained my usual composure. I reread Pale Fire more carefully. I liked it better when expecting less. And what was that? What was that dim distant music, those vestiges of color in the air? Here and there I discovered in it and especially, especially in the invaluable variants, echoes and spangles of my mind, a long ripplewake of my glory.”
—Vladimir Nabokov (1899–1977)