Famous quotes containing the word wild:
“The march of conquest through wild provinces, may be the march of Mind; but not the march of Love.”
—Herman Melville (18191891)
“What were our praise to them? They eat
Quiets wild heart, like daily meat;
Who when night thickens are afloat
On dappled skins in a glass boat,
Far out under a windless sky;
While over them birds of Aengus fly....”
—William Butler Yeats (18651939)
“There are other letters for the child to learn than those which Cadmus invented. The Spaniards have a good term to express this wild and dusky knolwedge, Grammatica parda, tawny grammar, a kind of mother-wit derived from that same leopard to which I have referred.”
—Henry David Thoreau (18171862)
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