High German Word

Famous quotes containing the words high, german and/or word:

“Tragedy is always a mistake; and the loneliness of the deepest thinker, the widest lover, ceases to be pathetic to us so soon as the sun is high enough above the mountains.”
—Margaret Fuller (1810–1850)

“Some of us prefer Austrian voices risen in song to ugly German threats.”
—Ernest Lehman (b. 1920)

“You were created of your name, the word
Is that of which you were the personage.
There is no life except in the word of it.”
—Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)