Vertical Drop

Famous quotes containing the words vertical and/or drop:

“I tell you, hopeless grief is passionless;
That only men incredulous of despair,
Half-taught in anguish, through the midnight air
Beat upward to God’s throne in loud access
Of shrieking and reproach. Full desertness,
In souls as countries, lieth silent-bare
Under the blanching, vertical eye-glare
Of the absolute Heavens.”
—Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806–1861)

“How shall a man escape from his ancestors, or draw off from his veins the black drop which he drew from his father’s or mother’s life?”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)