Velvet Room

Famous quotes containing the words velvet and/or room:

    “As if her velvet helmet high
    Did turret rationality.
    She fans her wing up to the winde
    As if her Pettycoate were lin’de
    With reasons fleece, and hoises saile
    And humming flies in thankfull gaile”
    —Edward Taylor (1645–1729)

    “Make room, Roman writers, make room for Greek writers; something greater than the Iliad is born.”
    —Propertius Sextus (c. 50–16 B.C.)