Famous quotes containing the words proper and/or distance:
“The still youthful energies of the globe have only to be directed in their proper channel.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“And then he heard some old forgotten talk
At a short distance like a hundred miles
Filling the air with its secrecy,
And was afraid of all the living air....”
—Allen Tate (1899–1979)