Famous quotes containing the words mercury, grand, marquis and/or generation:
“The mercury sank in the mouth of the dying day.
What instruments we have agree
The day of his death was a dark cold day.”
—W.H. (Wystan Hugh)
“The grand Perhaps! We look on helplessly,
There the old misgivings, crooked questions are.”
—Robert Browning (18121889)
“Poetry is what Milton saw when he went blind.”
—Don Marquis (18781937)
“One generation plants the trees under which another takes its ease.”
—Chinese proverb.
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