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)

    “The self-styled intellectual who is impotent with pen and ink hungers to write history with sword and blood.”
    —Eric Hoffer (1902–1983)

    “Sleep takes off the costume of circumstance, arms us with terrible freedom, so that every will rushes to a deed.”
    —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)