Famous quotes containing the words mercury, grand, marquis and/or generation:
“The mercury sank in the mouth of the dying day.
What instruments we have agree
The day of his death was a dark cold day.”
—W.H. (Wystan Hugh)
“The Olympian gods cannot have grand passions because they cannot die.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)
“Poetry is what Milton saw when he went blind.”
—Don Marquis (1878–1937)
“An evil and adulterous generation asks for a sign, but no sign will be given to it except the sign of the prophet Jonah.”
—Bible: New Testament, Matthew 12:39.
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