Swift Run Gap is a wind gap in the Blue Ridge Mountains located in the U.S. state of Virginia.
Famous quotes containing the words swift, run and/or gap:
“Now hardly here and there an hackney coach
Appearing, showed the ruddy morns approach.
Now Betty from her masters bed had flown,
And softly stole to discompose her own;
The slipshod prentice from his masters door
Had pared the dirt, and sprinkled round the floor.”
—Jonathan Swift (16671745)
“Nothing not built with hands of course is sacred.
But here is not a question of whats sacred;
Rather of what to face or run away from.
Id hate to be a runaway from nature.”
—Robert Frost (18741963)
“The gap between ideals and actualities, between dreams and achievements, the gap that can spur strong men to increased exertions, but can break the spirit of othersthis gap is the most conspicuous, continuous land mark in American history. It is conspicuous and continuous not because Americans achieve little, but because they dream grandly. The gap is a standing reproach to Americans; but it marks them off as a special and singularly admirable community among the worlds peoples.”
—George F. Will (b. 1941)