Famous quotes containing the words west, long and/or branch:
“One perceives that again and again she has destroyed her life when it was forming into shapes of happiness because of her loyalty to the early misery, her conviction that that has the sanction of ultimate reality, and that beside it all other things are trivial.”
—Rebecca West (1892–1983)
“If it was not wise,
Tell me why the East
Seemingly has ceased
From its long stagnation
In mere meditation.”
—Robert Frost (1874–1963)
“What can the dove of Jesus give
You now but wisdom, exile? Stand and live,
The dove has brought an olive branch to eat.”
—Robert Lowell (1917–1977)