Lone Power

Famous quotes containing the words lone and/or power:

    Your star, steel-set, keeps lone and frigid tryst
    to freighted ships, baffled in wind and blast.
    Hilda Doolittle (1886–1961)

    I, who cannot stay in my chamber for a single day without acquiring some rust,... confess that I am astonished at the power of endurance, to say nothing of the moral insensibility, of my neighbors who confine themselves to shops and offices the whole day for weeks and months, aye, and years almost together. I know not what manner of stuff they are of,—sitting there now at three o’clock in the afternoon, as if it were three o’clock in the morning.
    Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)