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Famous quotes containing the words tide and/or house:

    The poet who walks by moonlight is conscious of a tide in his thought which is to be referred to lunar influence.
    Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    Up the reputable walks of old established trees
    They stalk, children of the nouveaux riches; chimes
    Of the tall Clock Tower drench their heads in blessing:
    “I don’t wanna play at your house;
    I don’t like you any more.”
    My house stands opposite, on the other hill,
    William Dewitt Snodgrass (b. 1926)