Famous quotes containing the words man and/or standing:
“There had been a time on earth when poets had been young and dead and famous—and were men. But now the poet as the tragic child of grandeur and destiny had changed. The child of genius was a woman, now, and the man was gone.”
—Thomas Wolfe (1900–1938)
“O for breath to utter what is like thee! you tailor’s yard,
you sheath, you bowcase, you vile standing tuck.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)