Call it not vain they do not err Who say that when the poet dies Mute Nature mourns her worshipper, And celebrates his obsequies. (Walter Scott)

Call it not vain they do not err Who say that when the poet dies Mute Nature mourns her worshipper, And celebrates his obsequies.

Walter Scott

Related topics

call nature say vain

Related quotes

In vain we call old notions fudge, And bend our conscience to our dealing The Ten Commandments will not budge, And stealing will continue stealing. View quote
James Russell Lowell
If you were going to die soon and had only one phone call you could make, who would you call and what would you say? And why are you waiting? View quote
Stephen Levine
A good face they say, is a letter of recommendation. O Nature, Nature, why art thou so dishonest, as ever to send men with these false recommendations into the World! View quote
Henry Fielding
Wars will remain while human nature remains. I believe in my soul in cooperation, in arbitration; but the soldier's occupation we cannot say is gone until human nature is gone. View quote
Rutherford B. Hayes
What we call Man's power over Nature turns out to be a power exercised by some men over other men with Nature as its instrument. View quote
C. S. Lewis