Present Day North

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

“Jesus wept; Voltaire smiled. From that divine tear and from that human smile is derived the grace of present civilization.”
—Victor Hugo (1802–1885)

“I have no hostility to nature, but a child’s love to it. I expand and live in the warm day like corn and melons.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

“—Here, the flag snaps in the glare and silence
Of the unbroken ice. I stand here,
The dogs bark, my beard is black, and I stare
At the North Pole. . .
And now what? Why, go back.

Turn as I please, my step is to the south.”
—Randall Jarrell (1914–1965)