Famous quotes containing the words image, award, hall and/or fame:
“Her image was my ensign: snows melted,
Hedges sprouted, the moon tenderly shone,
The owls trilled with tongues of nightingale.”
—Robert Graves (18951985)
“The award of a pure gold medal for poetry would flatter the recipient unduly: no poem ever attains such carat purity.”
—Robert Graves (18951985)
“A cell for prayer, a hall for joy,
They treated nature as they would.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (18031882)
“Here rests his head upon the lap of Earth
A Youth to Fortune and to Fame unknown,
Fair Science frownd not on his humble birth,
And Melancholy markd him for her own.”
—Thomas Gray (17161771)