Famous quotes containing the word solemn:
“A serious writer is not to be confounded with a solemn writer. A serious writer may be a hawk or a buzzard or even a popinjay, but a solemn writer is always a bloody owl.”
—Ernest Hemingway (1899–1961)
“By the bivouac’s fitful flame,
A procession winding around me, solemn and sweet and slow”
—Walt Whitman (1819–1892)
“A marriage is no amusement but a solemn act, and generally a sad one.”
—Victoria (1819–1901)