Famous quotes containing the words black and/or sword:
“My black sun, my
Odessa sunflower,
spurs of Tartar gold
ring at your ankles,
you stand taller before me than the ten
towers of Jerusalem.”
—Denise Levertov (b. 1923)
“When valour preys on reason,
It eats the sword it fights with.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)