Emperor Wu Commissioned

Famous quotes containing the words emperor and/or commissioned:

    Even the emperor has straw-sandaled relatives.
    Chinese proverb.

    He crafted his writing and loved listening to those tiny explosions when the active brutality of verbs in revolution raced into sweet established nouns to send marching across the page a newly commissioned army of words-on-maneuvers, all decorated in loops, frets, and arrowlike flourishes.
    Alexander Theroux (b. 1940)