Famous quotes containing the word possess:
“I am an invisible man.... I am a man of substance, of flesh and bone, fiber and liquidsand I might even be said to possess a mind. I am invisible, understand, simply because people refuse to see me.”
—Ralph Ellison (b. 1914)
“To get power over is to defile. To possess is to defile.”
—Simone Weil (19091943)
“For that fine madness still he did retain
Which rightly should possess a poets brain.”
—Michael Drayton (15631631)
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