High German Word

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

    “Come Sleep! Oh Sleep, the certain knot of peace,
    The baiting-place of wit, the balm of woe,
    The poor man’s wealth, the prisoner’s release,
    Th’indifferent judge between the high and low.”
    —Sir Philip Sidney (1554–1586)

    “Immanuel Kant lived with knowledge as with his lawfully wedded wife, slept with it in the same intellectual bed for forty years and begot an entire German race of philosophical systems.”
    —Stefan Zweig (18811942)

    “Then word goes forth in Formic:
    “Death’s come to Jerry McCormic,
    Our selfless forager Jerry.”
    —Robert Frost (1874–1963)