Famous quotes containing the words greater, polish and/or lands:
“She sings as the moon sings:
I am I, am I;
The greater grows my lift
The further that I fly.
All creation shivers
With that sweet cry.”
—William Butler Yeats (18651939)
“It is the art of mankind to polish the world, and every one who works is scrubbing in some part.”
—Henry David Thoreau (18171862)
“Oh, never this whelming east wind swells
But it seems like the seas return
To the ancient lands where it left the shells
Before the age of the fern....”
—Robert Frost (18741963)