Treasure Mountain Dome

Famous quotes containing the words treasure, mountain and/or dome:

    “A self-denial, no less austere than the saint’s, is demanded of the scholar. He must worship truth, and forgo all things for that, and choose defeat and pain, so that his treasure in thought is thereby augmented.”
    —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

    “Give me the islands of the upper air,
    all mountains
    and the towering mountain trees.”
    —Hilda Doolittle (1886–1961)

    “Drab Habitation of Whom?
    Tabernacle or Tomb—
    Or Dome of Worm—
    Or Porch of Gnome—
    Or some Elf’s Catacomb?”
    —Emily Dickinson (1830–1886)