Famous quotes containing the words common, long and/or haul:
“There comes Poe, with his raven, like Barnaby Rudge,
Three-fifths of him genius, and two-fifths sheer fudge.
Who talks like a book of iambs and pentameters,
In a way to make people of common sense damn metres,
Who has written some things quite the best of their kind,
But the heart somehow seems all squeezed out by the mind.”
—James Russell Lowell (1819–1891)
“No one knows anybody’s name because nobody has a name. You’re just your state. I got to where somebody would say “Virginia,” and I’d answer. I was just “Virginia.” I wasn’t me any more.”
—Wendy Dascomb Long (b. c. 1950)
“The brawniest will not beat back the storm
Nor the heaviest haul your little boy from harm.”
—Gwendolyn Brooks (b. 1917)