Ate

Atë

... In Spencer's The Faerie Queene, a fiend from Hell disguised as a beautiful woman is called Ate ... This is a possible parallel to the fallen angels ...

Famous quotes containing the word ate:

    “Buz, quoth the blue fly,
    Hum, quoth the bee,
    Buz and hum they cry,
    And so do we:
    In his ear, in his nose, thus, do you see?
    He ate the dormouse, else it was he.”
    —Ben Jonson (1572–1637)

    “Mother,
    strange goddess face
    above my milk home,
    that delicate asylum,
    I ate you up.”
    —Anne Sexton (1928–1974)

    “Isabel, Isabel, didn’t worry,
    Isabel didn’t scream or scurry.
    She washed her hands and she straightened her hair up,
    Then Isabel quietly ate the bear up.”
    —Ogden Nash (1902–1971)