Famous quotes containing the words ernest, vincent, wright and/or wotton:
“O, theres a wind a-blowing, a-blowing from the west,
And that of all the winds is the one I like the best,
For it blows at our backs, and it shakes our pennon free,
And it soon will blow us home to the old countrie.”
—William Ernest Henley (18491903)
“I, being born a woman and distressed
By all the needs and notions of my kind,
Am urged by your propinquity to find
Your person fair, and feel a certain zest
To bear your bodys weight upon my breast:”
—Edna St. Vincent Millay (18921950)
“All fine architectural values are human vales, else not valuable.”
—Frank Lloyd Wright (18691959)
“Then, though darkened, you shall say,
When friends fail, and Princes frown,
Virtue is the roughest way,
But proves at night a bed of down.”
—Sir Henry Wotton (15681639)