Wire Steel Cage

Famous quotes containing the words wire, steel and/or cage:

    “Constantly risking absurdity and death whenever he performs above the heads of his audience the poet like an acrobat climbs on rime to a high wire of his own making.”
    —Lawrence Ferlinghetti (b. 1919)

    “O God of battles, steel my soldiers’ hearts.
    Possess them not with fear. Take from them now
    The sense of reckoning, ere th’ opposed numbers
    Pluck their hearts from them.”
    —William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

    “Out of the cage came Eve,
    escaping, escaping.
    She was clothed in her skin like the sun
    and her ankles were not for sale.”
    —Anne Sexton (1928–1974)