Mist Continent

Famous quotes containing the words mist and/or continent:

    By night and by day I shall seek your truth,
    O Lord, light my path, show the way.
    What is beyond the hills that I climb,
    Lord, clear the mist away.
    Faye T. Bresler (b. 1959)

    The etymologist finds the deadest word to have been once a brilliant picture. Language is fossil poetry. As the limestone of the continent consists of infinite masses of the shells of animalcules, so language is made up of images or tropes, which now, in their secondary use, have long ceased to remind us of their poetic origin.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)