Famous quotes containing the words high and/or rises:
“As for your high towers and monuments, there was a crazy fellow once in this town who undertook to dig through to China, and he got so far that, as he said, he heard the Chinese pots and kettles rattle; but I think that I shall not go out of my way to admire the hole which he made.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“Love is a garment
riven in the light
that rises from Parnassus,
showing
the night is over.”
—Hilda Doolittle (1886–1961)