Alexander Smith: Quotes about the world

Alexander Smith was Scottish poet and essayist. Explore interesting quotes on world.

Alexander Smith: 28 quotes2 likes

“The man who in this world can keep the whiteness of his soul is not likely to lose it in any other.”

Alexander Smith

Dreamthorp: Essays written in the Country (1863).

“The soul of man is like the rolling world,
One half in day, the other dipt in night;
The one has music and the flying cloud,
The other, silence and the wakeful stars.”

Alexander Smith

Horton.

“We hear the wail of the remorseful winds
In their strange penance. And this wretched orb
Knows not the taste of rest; a maniac world,
Homeless and sobbing through the deep she goes.”

Alexander Smith

Unrest and Childhood.