Famous quotes containing the words left, breast and/or suspended:
“While the old couple, just astir,
Fancy the sunrise left the door ajar!”
—Emily Dickinson (1830–1886)
“If we could know
Which of us, darling, would be the first to go,
Who would be first to breast the swelling tide
And step alone upon the other side—
If we could know!”
—Julia Harris May (1833–1912)
“Just as a waterfall grows slower and more lightly suspended as it plunges down, so the great man of action tends to act with greater calmness than his tempestuous desires prior to the deed would lead one to expect.”
—Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)