Demon Princes/setting

Famous quotes containing the words demon, princes and/or setting:

    “Until, accustomed to disappointments, you can let yourself rule and be ruled by these strings or emanations that connect everything together, you haven’t fully exorcised the demon of doubt that sets you in motion like a rocking horse that cannot stop rocking.”
    —John Ashbery (b. 1927)

    “I regret the unhappiness of princes who are slaves to forms and fettered by caution.”
    —Elizabeth I (1533–1603)

    “High from the summit of a craggy cliff,
    Hung o’er the deep, such as amazing frowns
    On utmost Kilda’s shore, whose lonely race
    Resign the setting sun to Indian worlds,
    The royal eagle draws his vigorous young”
    —James Thomson (1700–1748)