Famous quotes containing the words queen, paul, rodgers, cosmos and/or rocks:
“I would rather be a beggar and single than a queen and married.”
—Elizabeth I (1533–1603)
“After Stéphane Mallarmé, after Paul Verlaine, after Gustave Moreau, after Puvis de Chavannes, after our own verse, after all our subtle colour and nervous rhythm, after the faint mixed tints of Conder, what more is possible? After us the Savage God.”
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)
“this is the night, and this the happy time
When the tinned milk of human kindness is
Upheld and holed by radio-appeal.”
—William Robert Rodgers (1909–1969)
“The cosmos is about the smallest hole that a man can hide his head in.”
—Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1874–1936)
“—the dark ajar, the rocks breaking with light,
and undisturbed, unbreathing flame,
colorless, sparkless, freely fed on straw,
and, lulled within, a family with pets,
—and looked and looked our infant sight away.”
—Elizabeth Bishop (1911–1979)