Romantic Swordsman

Famous quotes containing the words romantic and/or swordsman:

“My mind no longer has romantic abysses, but has become shallow, with many little gaps and cracks.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)

“We are double-edged blades, and every time we whet our virtue the return stroke straps our vice. Where is the skillful swordsman who can give clean wounds, and not rip up his work with the other edge?”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)