Thorny Headed Worm

Famous quotes containing the words thorny, headed and/or worm:

    Let Love step down,
    open the clasped hands,
    forfeit the thorny crown,
    retrieve the garment
    that was whole,
    body and spirit one, spirit and soul.
    Hilda Doolittle (1886–1961)

    We’re headed for collapse, if you want my opinion, Missy. I can see it in the fallin’ off of the quality of vagrants. There was a time you could find real good company in almost any jungle you’d pick, men who could talk, men who’d read a book now and then; and now, what do you find, a lot of dirty little guttersnipes no decent tramp would want to associate with.
    Well, it’s been that way all through history.
    John Dos Passos (1896–1970)

    The worm of conscience still begnaw thy soul!
    William Shakespeare (1564–1616)