Famous quotes containing the words dark and/or phoenix:
“‘Who is it that this dark night
Underneath my window plaineth?’”
—Sir Philip Sidney (1554–1586)
“And there’s a score of duchesses, surpassing womankind,
Or who have found a painter to make them so for pay
And smooth out stain and blemish with the elegance of his mind:
I knew a phoenix in my youth, so let them have their day.”
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)