High German Word

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

    But let my due feet never fail
    To walk the studious cloister’s pale,
    And love the high embowed roof,
    With antic pillars massy proof,
    And storied windows richly dight,
    Casting a dim, religious light.
    John Milton (1608–1674)

    The Germans—once they were called the nation of thinkers: do they still think at all? Nowadays the Germans are bored with intellect, the Germans distrust intellect, politics devours all seriousness for really intellectual things—Deutschland, Deutschland Über alles was, I fear, the end of German philosophy.
    Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)

    Where are now the warring kings,
    Word be-mockers? By the Rood
    Where are now the warring kings?
    An idle word is now their glory,
    By the stammering schoolboy said....
    William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)