Small Submerged Reef

Famous quotes containing the words small, submerged and/or reef:

    “Vulgarity cannot exist in the absence of loftier values. Once it has affected the latter, however, it wants to absorb them. Unless you want to be as weak and small as human beings, you had better stay away from them.”
    —Franz Grillparzer (1791–1872)

    “Yet it is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes comes to the top.”
    —Virginia Woolf (1882–1941)

    “As the bird trims her to the gale,
    I trim myself to the storm of time,
    I man the rudder, reef the sail,
    Obey the voice at eve obeyed in prime:
    “Lowly faithful, banish fear,
    Right onward drive unharmed;
    The port, well worth the cruise, is near,
    And every wave is charmed.””
    —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)