Famous quotes containing the words fleet and/or exercises:
“They ... fleet the time carelessly, as they did in the golden world.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
“Poetry, at all times, exercises two distinct functions: it may reveal, it may unveil to every eye, the ideal aspects of common things ... or it may actually add to the number of motives poetic and uncommon in themselves, by the imaginative creation of things that are ideal from their very birth.”
—Walter Pater (1839–1894)