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 (18921983)
“This long last childhood
Nothing provides for.
What can it do each day
But hunt that imminent door
Through which all that understood
Has hidden away?”
—Philip Larkin (19221986)
“That mans the true Conservative
Who lops the mouldered branch away.”
—Alfred Tennyson (18091892)