Famous quotes containing the words collected, stories and/or volume:
“Poverty is not a shame, but the being ashamed of it is.”
—English proverb, no. 3908, collected in Thomas Fuller, Gnomologia (1732)
“the tide lays down its wet throat
and alters the land to island—even as I watch
I say there is no shore
apart from stories of it,
no smoke, no hut, no beacon ...”
—Lynn Emanuel (b. 1949)
“She carries a book but it is not
the tome of the ancient wisdom,
the pages, I imagine, are the blank pages
of the unwritten volume of the new.”
—Hilda Doolittle (1886–1961)