Famous quotes containing the words greater, polish and/or lands:
“And since the average lifetimethe relative longevityis far greater for memories of poetic sensations than for those of heartbreaks, since the very long time that the grief I felt then because of Gilbert, it has been outlived by the pleasure I feel, whenever I wish to read, as in a sort of sundial, the minutes between twelve fifteen and one oclock, in the month of May, upon remembering myself chatting ... with Madame Swann under the reflection of a cradle of wisteria.”
—Marcel Proust (18711922)
“Then I polish all the silver, which a supper-table lacquers;
Then I write the pretty mottoes which you find inside the
crackers”
—Sir William Schwenck Gilbert (18361911)
“The sea
Severs not only lands but also selves.”
—Wallace Stevens (18791955)