Van Wert High

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

    “I please
    To plant some more dew-wet anemones
    That they may weep.”
    —Unknown. The Thousand and One Nights.

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

    “Rhodora! if the sages ask thee why
    This charm is wasted on the earth and sky,
    Tell them, dear, that if eyes were made for seeing,
    Then Beauty is its own excuse for being:
    Why thou wert there, O rival of the rose!
    I never thought to ask, I never knew:
    But, in my simple ignorance, suppose
    The self-same Power that brought me there brought you.”
    —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

    “It was a high counsel that I once heard given to a young person,—”Always do what you are afraid to do.””
    —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)