Iron Horse Middle

Famous quotes containing the words iron, horse and/or middle:

    “Reading while waiting
    for the iron to heat,
    writing, My Life had stood—a Loaded Gun—”
    —Adrienne Rich (b. 1929)

    “I am a good horse to travel, but not from choice a roadster. The landscape-painter uses the figures of men to mark a road. He would not make that use of my figure.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    “Death cut the strings that gave me life,
    And handed me to Sorrow,
    The only kind of middle wife
    My folks could beg or borrow.”
    —Countee Cullen (1903–1946)