Wright Stain

Famous quotes containing the words wright and/or stain:

“It is singular to look round upon a country where the dreams of sages, smiled at as utopian, seem distinctly realized, a people voluntarily submitting to laws of their own imposing, with arms in their hands respecting the voice of a government which their breath created and which their breath could in a moment destroy!”
—Frances Wright (1795–1852)

“She comes to meet death,
To stain the altar of the goddess,
To hold her girl-throat
Toward the knife-thrust.”
—Hilda Doolittle (1886–1961)