Red Star Won

Famous quotes containing the words red, star and/or won:

    ““The god has not yet answered to our pity
    For the black vision and tangle in her brains,
    Nor is there knowing soever in the city
    Of the red histories that throbbed in her blue veins.””
    —Allen Tate (1899–1979)

    “A star was broken
    Into the centuries of the child
    Myselves grieve now, and miracles cannot atone.”
    —Dylan Thomas (1914–1953)

    “Dule and wae for the order sent our lads to the Border;
    The English, for ance, by guile won the day:
    The Flowers of the Forest, that foucht aye the foremost,
    The prime o’ our land, are cauld in the clay.”
    —Jean Elliot (1727–1805)