"Dauntlessness" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... meant to devote himself to his mother, according to his lights, had Sarah's influence not come in the way. Sarah, who must have divined her secret all the while, and who, with the dauntlessness of youth, had not hesitated to force open the door into a world so bright that Lady Mary almost feared to enter it, but trembled, as it were, upon the threshold of her ...
— Peter's Mother • Mrs. Henry De La Pasture
... turning upon me oft, ironically hissing low; —The cities I loved so well I abandoned and left—I sped to the certainties suitable to me Hungering, hungering, hungering, for primal energies, and Nature's dauntlessness, I refreshed myself with it only, I could relish it only; I waited the bursting forth of the pent fire—on the water and air I waited long. —But now I no longer wait—I am fully satisfied—I am glutted; I have witnessed ...
— Poems By Walt Whitman • Walt Whitman |
