Witches

Famous quotes containing the word witches:

    “People who are always praising the past
    And especially the times of faith as best
    Ought to go and live in the Middle Ages
    And be burnt at the stake as witches and sages.”
    —Stevie Smith (1902–1971)

    “Although the most incisive judges of the witches and even the witches themselves were convinced of the guilt of witchcraft, this guilt nevertheless did not exist. Thus it is with all guilt.”
    —Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)

    “Like witches they flew along rows
    Keeping creation at ease;
    With a tendril for needle
    They sewed up the air with a stem;”
    —Theodore Roethke (1908–1963)