Poor High Altitude

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

    “Someone is dead.
    Even the trees know it,
    those poor old dancers who come on lewdly,
    all pea-green scarfs and spine pole.”
    —Anne Sexton (1928–1974)

    “While yet a boy I sought for ghosts, and sped
    Through many a listening chamber, cave and ruin,
    And starlight wood, with fearful steps pursuing
    Hopes of high talk with the departed dead.”
    —Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792–1822)

    “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)