Dual Sword Arms

Famous quotes containing the words dual, sword and/or arms:

    “Thee for my recitative,
    Thee in the driving storm even as now, the snow, the winter-day
    declining,
    Thee in thy panoply, thy measur’d dual throbbing and thy beat
    convulsive,
    Thy black cylindric body, golden brass and silvery steel,”
    —Walt Whitman (1819–1892)

    “When valour preys on reason,
    It eats the sword it fights with.”
    —William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

    “Death,
    you lie in my arms like a cherub,
    as heavy as bread dough.
    Your milky wings are as still as plastic.”
    —Anne Sexton (1928–1974)