Waller

Famous quotes containing the word waller:

    “Poets that lasting Marble seek
    Must carve in Latine or in Greek,
    We write in Sand, our Language grows,
    And like the Tide our work o’erflows.”
    —Edmund Waller (1606–1687)

    “The fear of hell, or aiming to be blest,
    Savours too much of private interest.”
    —Edmund Waller (1606–1687)

    “A narrow compass! and yet there
    Dwelt all that’s good, and all that’s fair!”
    —Edmund Waller (1606–1687)