Sicilian Expedition/winter of 415 %e2%80%93 Spring of 414 BC

Famous quotes containing the words expedition, winter and/or spring:

    “Writing a novel is not merely going on a shopping expedition across the border to an unreal land: it is hours and years spent in the factories, the streets, the cathedrals of the imagination.”
    —Janet Frame (b. 1924)

    “The winter does what it can for its children.”
    —John Ashbery (b. 1927)

    “See spring is gone,
    ah wail, ah wail in vain,
    for spring is dead.”
    —Hilda Doolittle (1886–1961)