Iron Gates

Famous quotes containing the words iron and/or gates:

“In the course of history, men come to see that “iron necessity” is neither iron nor necessary.”
—Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)

“We’ve cracked the hemispheres with careless hand!
Now, from the Gates of Hercules we flood

Westward, westward till the barbarous brine
Whelms us to the tired world where tasseling corn,
Fat beans, grapes sweeter than muscadine
Rot on the vine: in the land were we born.”
—Allen Tate (1899–1979)