Degrees East

Famous quotes containing the words degrees and/or east:

    “Gradually we come to admit that Shakespeare understands a greater extent and variety of human life than Dante; but that Dante understands deeper degrees of degradation and higher degrees of exaltation.”
    —T.S. (Thomas Stearns)

    “Sublime tobacco! which from east to west
    Cheers the tar’s labour or the Turkman’s rest.”
    —George Gordon Noel Byron (1788–1824)