Pierce

Famous quotes containing the word pierce:

“Just pierce my right side open
And save my baby.””
—Unknown. The Death of Queen Jane (l. 7–8)

““... I have what no young man can have
Because he loves too much.
Words I have that can pierce the heart,
But what can he do but touch?”
Day-break and a candle end.
”
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)

“For rigorous teachers seized my youth,
And purged its faith, and trimm’d its fire,
Show’d me the high, white star of Truth,
There bade me gaze, and there aspire.
Even now their whispers pierce the gloom:
What dost thou in this living tomb?”
—Matthew Arnold (1822–1888)