Mistress

Famous quotes containing the word mistress:

“So, when my mistress shall be seen
In form and beauty of her mind,
By virtue first, then choice, a queen,”
—Sir Henry Wotton (1568–1639)

“Trying to avoid
Ideas, as in this poem? But we
Go back to them as to a wife, leaving
The mistress we desire?”
—John Ashbery (b. 1927)