Spanish Trail

Famous quotes containing the words spanish and/or trail:

“The French courage proceeds from vanity—the German from phlegm—the Turkish from fanaticism & opium—the Spanish from pride—the English from coolness—the Dutch from obstinacy—the Russian from insensibility—but the Italian from anger.”
—George Gordon Noel Byron (1788–1824)

“The ghosts of the villages trail in the sky
Making a new twilight”
—William Stanley Merwin (b. 1927)