Famous quotes containing the words white and/or house:
“Supererogatory divinations one is
lured on by!
The routine
is decent. As if the white page
were a clean tablecloth ...”
—Denise Levertov (b. 1923)
“Go out of the house to see the moon, and ‘t is mere tinsel; it will not please as when its light shines upon your necessary journey. The beauty that shimmers in the yellow afternoons of October, who could ever clutch it? Go forth to find it, and it is gone: ‘t is only a mirage as you look from the windows of diligence.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)