Famous quotes containing the words cat, stevens, early and/or life:
““A cat may look at a king,” said Alice. “I’ve read that in some book, but I don’t remember where.””
—Lewis Carroll [Charles Lutwidge Dodgson] (1832–1898)
“The wound kills that does not bleed.
It has no nurse nor kin to know
Nor kin to care.”
—Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)
“An early dew woos the half-opened flowers”
—Unknown. The Thousand and One Nights.
AWP. Anthology of World Poetry, An. Mark Van Doren, ed. (Rev. and enl. Ed., 1936)
“We have long forgotten the ritual by which the house of our life was erected. But when it is under assault and enemy bombs are already taking their toll, what enervated, perverse antiquities do they not lay bare in the foundations.”
—Walter Benjamin (1892–1940)