Northern Lesser Poland

Famous quotes containing the words northern, lesser and/or poland:

    “In civilization, as in a southern latitude, man degenerates at length, and yields to the incursion of more northern tribes.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    “Earth in beauty dressed
    Awaits returning spring.
    All true love must die,
    Alter at the best
    Into some lesser thing.
    Prove that I lie.”
    —William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)

    “It is often said that Poland is a country where there is anti-semitism and no Jews, which is pathology in its purest state.”
    —Bronislaw Geremek (b. 1932)