Moon Crystal Power

Famous quotes containing the words moon, crystal and/or power:

    “Like the moon her kindness is.
    If kindness I may call
    What has no comprehension in’t,
    But is the same for all
    As though my sorrow were a scene
    Upon a painted wall.”
    —William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)

    “But the thing that I saw in your face
    No power can disinherit:
    No bomb that ever burst
    Shatters the crystal spirit.”
    —George Orwell (1903–1950)

    “A physician can sometimes parry the scythe of death, but has no power over the sand in the hourglass.”
    —Hester Lynch Piozzi (1741–1821)