Mistress

Famous quotes containing the word mistress:

“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)

“A new mistress is like new sheets. A little bit stiff but washings to come.”
—Philip Dunne (1908–1992)

“See the kind seed-receiving earth
To every grain affords a birth:
On her no showers unwelcome fall,
Her willing womb retains ‘em all,
And shall my Caelia be confined?
No, live up to thy mighty mind,
And be the mistress of Mankind!”
—John Wilmot, 2d Earl Of Rochester (1647–1680)