High German Word

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

    But evil things, in robes of sorrow,
    Assailed the monarch’s high estate;
    Edgar Allan Poe (1809–1849)

    How much atonement is enough? The bombing must be allowed as at least part-payment: those of our young people who are concerned about the moral problem posed by the Allied air offensive should at least consider the moral problem that would have been posed if the German civilian population had not suffered at all.
    Clive James (b. 1939)

    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)