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:
“Jesus passed among the people
in a chef’s hat
and they kissed His spoons and forks
and ate well from invisible dishes.”
—Anne Sexton (1928–1974)
“Rats!
They fought the dogs and killed the cats,
And bit the babies in the cradles,
And ate the cheeses out of the vats,
And licked the soup from the cooks’ own ladles,
Split open the kegs of salted sprats,
Made nests inside men’s Sunday hats,
And even spoiled the women’s chats
By drowning their speaking
With shrieking and squeaking
In fifty different sharps and flats.”
—Robert Browning (1812–1889)
“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)