Poor High Altitude

Famous quotes containing the words poor, high and/or altitude:

    “We are poor passing facts,
    warned by that to give
    each figure in the photograph
    his living name.”
    —Robert Lowell (1917–1977)

    “The high that proved too high, the heroic for earth too hard,
    The passion that left the ground to lose itself in the sky,
    Are music sent up to God by the lover and the bard;
    Enough that he heard it once; we shall hear it by and by.”
    —Robert Browning (1812–1889)

    “On a level plain, simple mounds look like hills; and the insipid flatness of our present bourgeoisie is to be measured by the altitude of its “great intellects.””
    —Karl Marx (1818–1883)