• Rising genius always shoots out its rays from among the clouds, but these will gradually roll away and disappear as it ascends to its steady luster.

  Washington Irving
  American writer 1783-1859
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Subjects in these quotes:

1. gradually
2. disappear
3. ascends
4. shoots
5. clouds
6. steady

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Rising genius always shoots out its rays from among the clouds, but these will gradually roll away and disappear as it ascends to its steady luster. by : Washington Irving

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