Iron Gates

Famous quotes containing the words iron and/or gates:

“Good iron is not hammered into nails, and good men should not be made into soldiers.”
—Chinese proverb.

“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)