Groves Met

Famous quotes containing the words groves and/or met:

    “The word unto the prophet spoken
    Was writ on tables yet unbroken;
    The word by seers or sibyls told,
    In groves of oak, or fanes of gold,
    Still floats upon the morning wind,
    Still whispers to the willing mind.”
    —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

    “Greek philosophy seems to have met with something with which a good tragedy is not supposed to meet, namely, a dull ending.”
    —Karl Marx (1818–1883)