One

Famous quotes containing the word one:

    O would, beloved, that you lay
    Under the dock-leaves in the ground,
    While lights were paling one by one.
    William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)

    It makes so little difference, at so much more
    Than seventy, where one looks, one has been there before.
    Wood-smoke rises through trees, is caught in an upper flow
    Of air and whirled away. But it has been often so.
    Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)

    So Nature deals with us, and takes away
    Our playthings one by one, and by the hand
    Leads us to rest so gently, that we go
    Scarce knowing if we wish to go or stay,
    Being too full of sleep to understand
    How far the unknown transcends the what we
    know.
    Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1809–1882)