Williams Defeated World

Famous quotes containing the words williams, defeated and/or world:

    “Since Norf is up,
    An’ Souf is down,
    An’ Hebben is up,
    I’m upward boun’.”
    —Lucy Ariel Williams Holloway (b. 1905)

    “For us artists there waits the joyous compromise through art with all that wounded or defeated us in daily life; in this way, not to evade destiny, as the ordinary people try to do, but to fulfil it in its true potential—the imagination.”
    —Lawrence Durrell (1912–1990)

    “Dark Angel, with thine aching lust
    To rid the world of penitence:
    Malicious Angel, who still dost
    My soul such subtile violence!

    Because of thee, no thought, no thing,
    Abides for me undesecrate:
    Dark Angel, ever on the wing,
    Who never reachest me too late!”
    —Lionel Pigot Johnson (1867–1902)