Avignon/peopleborn or Died in Avignon

Famous quotes containing the words avignon and/or died:

“he was sitting
and saying over
those green words
Laura and laurel
written in Avignon ...”
—Denise Levertov (b. 1923)

“He weren’t no saint—but at Jedgment
I’d run my chance with Jim,
‘Longside of some pious gentlemen
That wouldn’t shook hands with him.
He seen his duty, a dead-sure thing,—
And went for it, thar an’ then:
And Christ ain’t a-goin’ to be too hard
On a man that died for me.”
—John Milton Hay (1838–1905)