Prophetic Biography/early Compilations of S%c4%abra

Famous quotes containing the words prophetic, biography and/or early:

    “But though Heaven made him poor, with reverence speaking,
    He never was a poet of God’s making;
    The midwife laid her hand on his thick skull,
    With this prophetic blessing—Be thou dull;”
    —John Dryden (1631–1700)

    “A great biography should, like the close of a great drama, leave behind it a feeling of serenity. We collect into a small bunch the flowers, the few flowers, which brought sweetness into a life, and present it as an offering to an accomplished destiny. It is the dying refrain of a completed song, the final verse of a finished poem.”
    —André Maurois (1885–1967)

    “When first we faced, and touching showed
    How well we knew the early moves ...”
    —Philip Larkin (1922–1986)