Who is unknown. fair annie?

Famous quotes containing the words unknown and/or fair:

    It is the unknown that excites the ardor of scholars, who, in the known alone, would shrivel up with boredom.
    Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)

    O, why should Love, like men in drinking-songs,
    Spice his fair banquet with the dust of death?
    Alfred Tennyson (1809–1892)