Precious Paris

Famous quotes containing the words precious and/or paris:

“Death is untutored, with an ignorant frown
For precious identities of breath.”
—Allen Tate (1899–1979)

“Beloved, may your sleep be sound
That have found it where you fed.
What were all the world’s alarms
To mighty Paris when he found
Sleep upon a golden bed
That first dawn in Helen’s arms?”
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)