Famous quotes containing the word stony:
“And from the first declension of the flesh
I learnt mans tongue, to twist the shapes of thoughts
Into the stony idiom of the brain....”
—Dylan Thomas (19141953)
“O God of our flesh, return us to Your wrath,
Let us be evil could we enter in
Your grace, and falter on the stony path!”
—Allen Tate (18991979)
“twenty centuries of stony sleep
Were vexed to nightmare by a rocking cradle,
And what rough beast, its hour come round at last,
Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?”
—William Butler Yeats (18651939)
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