Pole

Famous quotes containing the word pole:

    No exile at the South Pole or on the summit of Mont Blanc separates us more effectively from others than the practice of a hidden vice.
    Marcel Proust (1871–1922)

    Midwinter spring is its own season
    Sempiternal though sodden towards sundown,
    Suspended in time, between pole and tropic.
    —T.S. (Thomas Stearns)

    O, withered is the garland of the war,
    The soldier’s pole is fallen!
    William Shakespeare (1564–1616)