Messenger/literature

Famous quotes containing the words messenger and/or literature:

“Still let my tyrants know, I am not doomed to wear
Year after year in gloom, and desolate despair;
A messenger of Hope comes every night to me,
And offers for short life, eternal liberty.”
—Emily Brontë (1818–1848)

“The Irishman in English literature may be said to have been born with an apology in his mouth.”
—James Connolly (1870–1916)