Van Wert High

Famous quotes containing the words van, wert and/or high:

    “For him nor deep nor hill there is,
    But all’s one level plain he hunts for flowers.”
    —Unknown. The Thousand and One Nights.

    AWP. Anthology of World Poetry, An. Mark Van Doren, ed. (Rev. and enl. Ed., 1936)

    “O wert thou in the cauld blast,
    On yonder lea, on yonder lea,
    My plaidie to the angry airt,
    I’d shelter thee, I’d shelter thee.”
    —Robert Burns (1759–1796)

    “I laugh at the lore and pride of man
    At the sophist schools, and the learned clan;
    For what are they all, in their high conceit,
    When man in the bush with God may meet?”
    —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)