Famous quotes containing the words bite, mark and/or comparison:
“God loafs around heaven,
without a shape
but He would like to smoke His cigar
or bite His fingernails
and so forth.”
—Anne Sexton (19281974)
“Commerce has set the mark of selfishness,
The signet of its all-enslaving power,
Upon a shining ore, and called it gold:
Before whose image bow the vulgar great,
The vainly rich, the miserable proud,
The mob of peasants, nobles, priests, and kings,
And with blind feelings reverence the power
That grinds them to the dust of misery.”
—Percy Bysshe Shelley (17921822)
“Intolerance respecting other peoples religion is toleration itself in comparison with intolerance respecting other peoples art.”
—Wallace Stevens (18791955)
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