Solitary

Famous quotes containing the word solitary:

“While glow the heavens with the last steps of day,
Far, through their rosy depths, dost thou pursue
Thy solitary way!”
—William Cullen Bryant (1794–1878)

“The hunchback in the park
A solitary mister
Propped between trees and water.”
—Dylan Thomas (1914–1953)

“We need the tonic of wildness,—to wade sometimes in marshes where the bittern and the meadow-hen lurk, and hear the booming of the snipe; to smell the whispering sedge where only some wilder and more solitary fowl builds her nest, and the mink crawls with its belly close to the ground.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)