World

Famous quotes containing the word world:

“To see a world in a grain of sand
And a heaven in a wild flower,
Hold infinity in the palm of your hand
And eternity in an hour.”
—William Blake (1757–1827)

“The world is too much with us; late and soon,
Getting and spending, we lay waste our powers.”
—William Wordsworth (1770–1850)

“... the spiritual world is here and now and indisputably and preeminently real. It is the material world that is the realm of shadows.”
—Amelia E. Barr, U.S. novelist. All the Days of My Life, ch. 1 (1913)