Present Day North

Famous quotes containing the words present, day and/or north:

    “The land of shadows wilt thou trace
    And look nor know each other’s face
    The present mixed with reasons gone
    And past and present all as one
    Say maiden can thy life be led
    To join the living with the dead
    Then trace thy footsteps on with me
    We’re wed to one eternity”
    —John Clare (1793–1864)

    “The day in his hotness,
    The strife with the palm;
    The night in her silence,
    The stars in their calm . . .”
    —Matthew Arnold (1822–1888)

    “Biography is a very definite region bounded on the north by history, on the south by fiction, on the east by obituary, and on the west by tedium.”
    —Philip Guedalla (1889–1944)