Hot Short Iron

Famous quotes containing the words hot, short and/or iron:

“Like to the time o’ th’ year between the extremes
Of hot and cold, he was nor sad nor merry.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

“A short life and a merry one, my buck!
We used to say we’d hate to live dead-old,—
Yet now . . . I’d willingly be puffy, bald,
And patriotic.”
—Wilfred Owen (1893–1918)

“Reading while waiting
for the iron to heat,
writing, My Life had stood—a Loaded Gun—”
—Adrienne Rich (b. 1929)