Angels

Famous quotes containing the word angels:

    “Men would be angels, angels would be gods.”
    —Alexander Pope (1688–1744)

    “In the greenest of our valleys
    By good angels tenanted,
    Once a fair and stately palace—
    Radiant palace—reared its head.
    In the monarch Thought’s dominion,
    It stood there!”
    —Edgar Allan Poe (1809–1849)

    “when such bodies join
    There is no touching here, nor touching there,
    Nor straining joy, but whole is joined to whole;
    For the intercourse of angels is a light
    Where for its moment both seem lost, consumed.”
    —William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)