Tang Marries Princess

Famous quotes containing the words tang, marries and/or princess:

    “The art of cursing people seems to have lost its tang since the old days when a good malediction took four deep breaths to deliver and sent the outfielders scurrying toward the fence to field.”
    —Robert Benchley (1889–1945)

    “bars of that strange speech
    In which each sound sets out to seek each other,
    Murders its own father, marries its own mother,
    And ends as one grand transcendental vowel.”
    —Randall Jarrell (1914–1965)

    “He is blowing on light
    each time for the first time.
    His fingers cover the mouths of all the sopranos,
    each a princess in an exact position.”
    —Anne Sexton (1928–1974)