Dark Blue Mountain

Famous quotes containing the words dark, blue and/or mountain:

    “Their school a crowd, his master solitude;
    Through Jonathan Swift’s dark grove he passed, and there
    Plucked bitter wisdom that enriched his blood.”
    —William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)

    “Sometimes we see a cloud that’s dragonish,
    A vapor sometimes like a bear or lion,
    A towered citadel, a pendant rock,
    A forked mountain, or blue promontory
    With trees upon ‘t that nod unto the world
    And mock our eyes with air. Thou hast seen these signs;
    They are black vesper’s pageants.”
    —William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

    “The ordinary man looking at a mountain is like an illiterate person confronted with a Greek manuscript.”
    —Aleister Crowley (1875–1947)