Lasting

Famous quotes containing the word lasting:

“Orpheus with his lute made trees
And the mountain tops that freeze
Bow themselves when he did sing.
To his music plants and flowers
Ever sprung, as sun and showers
There had made a lasting spring.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

“She was no longer wrestling with the grief, but could sit down with it as a lasting companion and make it a sharer in her thoughts.”
—George Eliot [Mary Ann (or Marian)

“God guard me from those thoughts men think
In the mind alone;
He that sings a lasting song
Thinks in a marrow-bone....”
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)