Washington Scene

Famous quotes containing the words washington and/or scene:

“Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.”
—George Washington (1732–1799)

“The poem of the mind in the act of finding
What will suffice. It has not always had
To find: the scene was set; it repeated what
Was in the script.
Then the theatre was changed
To something else. Its past was a souvenir.”
—Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)