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.

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