Bore Brass Instruments

Famous quotes containing the words bore, brass and/or instruments:

    “He bore her away in his arms,
    The handsomest young man there,
    And his neck and his breast and his arms
    Were drowned in her long dim hair.”
    —William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)

    “You could almost see the brass on her gleaming,
    Not quite. The mist was to light what red
    Is to fire. And her mainmast tapered to nothing,
    Without teetering a millimeter’s measure.
    The beads on her rails seemed to grasp at transparence.”
    —Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)

    “But when to mischiefmortals bend their will,
    How soon they find fit instruments of ill!”
    —Alexander Pope (1688–1744)