Empire Strikes

Famous quotes containing the words empire and/or strikes:

    “An empire is an immense egotism.”
    —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

    “Kassandra shakes out her hair
    Its gold clasped
    With half-opened laurel-shoots
    When the god strikes her
    With his breath.”
    —Hilda Doolittle (1886–1961)