Famous quotes containing the words unknown, unquiet and/or grave:
“It is the unknown that excites the ardor of scholars, who, in the known alone, would shrivel up with boredom.”
—Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)
“And now the sparrows warring in the eaves,
The curd-pale moon, the white stars in the sky,
And the loud chaunting of the unquiet leaves,
Are shaken with earth’s old and weary cry.”
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)
“A grave blockhead should always go about with a lively one—they shew one another off to the best advantage.”
—William Hazlitt (1778–1830)