Phoenix Left

Famous quotes containing the words phoenix and/or left:

    And there’s a score of duchesses, surpassing womankind,
    Or who have found a painter to make them so for pay
    And smooth out stain and blemish with the elegance of his mind:
    I knew a phoenix in my youth, so let them have their day.
    William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)

    The spirit of the marriage left the bedroom and took to living in the parlor.
    Zora Neale Hurston (1891–1960)