Famous quotes containing the words left, field and/or wall:
“Here’s that which is too weak to be a sinner,
Honest water, which ne’er left man i’ th’ mire.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
“My prime of youth is but a frost of cares,
My feast of joy is but a dish of pain,
My crop of corn is but a field of tares,
And all my good is but vain hope of gain:
The day is past, and yet I saw no sun,
And now I live, and now my life is done.”
—Chidiock Tichborne (1558–1586)
“Mountain, mountain, mountain,
marking time. Each
nameless, wall beyond wall, wavering
redefinition of
horizon.”
—Denise Levertov (b. 1923)