Van Wert High

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

    ““Mr. Van Buren, your friends may be leaving you—but my friends never leave me.””
    —Andrew Jackson (1767–1845)

    “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)

    “And she’d had lucky eyes and a high heart,
    And wisdom that caught fire like the dried flax,
    At need, and made her beautiful and fierce,
    Sudden and laughing.”
    —William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)