Gain Babenberg Blood

Famous quotes containing the words gain and/or blood:

“We go to gain a little patch of ground
That hath in it no profit but the name.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

“by noon
the whole city in all its corruption,
all its shed blood the monsoon cannot wash away,
has become a temple,
fragile, insolent, absolute.”
—Denise Levertov (b. 1923)