Famous quotes containing the words phillips and/or asked:
“Happy the Man, who void of Cares and Strife,
In Silken, or in Leathern Purse retains
A Splendid Shilling: He nor hears with Pain
New Oysters cryd, nor sighs for chearful Ale;”
—John Phillips (16761709)
“I asked the master Yeats
Whose great style could not tell
Why it is man hates
His own salvation,
Prefers the way to hell....”
—Allen Tate (18991979)