Cannibal God

Famous quotes containing the words cannibal and/or god:

“Better sleep with a sober cannibal than a drunken Christian.”
—Herman Melville (1819–1891)

“How clean the sun when seen in its idea,
Washed in the remotest cleanliness of a heaven
That has expelled us and our images . . .
The death of one god is the death of all.
Let purple Phoebus lie in umber harvest,
Let Phoebus slumber and die in autumn umber....”
—Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)