Scattering Power

Famous quotes containing the words scattering and/or power:

    “Or of the garden where we first mislaid
    Simplicity of wish and will, forgetting
    Out of what cognate splendor all things came
    To take their scattering names;”
    —Richard Wilbur (b. 1921)

    “He has served me too well; by increasing my power he has stolen it away: he is now my subject only so long as he pleases.”
    —Pierre Corneille (1606–1684)