Famous quotes containing the words treaty, tribal and/or voice:
“No treaty is ever an impediment to a cheat.”
—Sophocles (497–406/5 B.C.)
“What is this conversation, now secular,
A speech not mine yet speaking for me in
The heaving jelly of my tribal air?
It rises in the throat, it climbs the tongue,
It perches there for secret tutelage....”
—Allen Tate (1899–1979)
“Fear, then, so wounded me
As fell upon my ear
The voice a blind man dreams
And broke on me the smile
I dreamed as deaf men hear,”
—Jean Garrigue (1914–1972)
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