Died

Famous quotes containing the word died:

    “These were the sounds that issued from the wigwams of this country before Columbus was born; they have not yet died away; and, with remarkably few exceptions, the language of their forefathers is still copious enough for them. I felt that I stood, or rather lay, as near to the primitive man of America, that night, as any of its discoverers ever did.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    “Yet
    Ere the season died a-cold
    Borne upon a zephyr’s shoulder
    Irose through the aureate sky”
    —Ezra Pound (1885–1972)

    “A modern author would have died in infancy in a ruder age.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)