Famous quotes containing the word curses:
“... these great improvements of modern times are blessings or curses on us, just in the same ratio as the mental, moral, and religious rule over the animal; or the animal propensities of our nature predominate over the intellectual and moral. The spider elaborates poison from the same flower, in which the bee finds materials out of which she manufactures honey.”
—Harriot K. Hunt (18051875)
“I believe we shall come to care about people less and less.... The more people one knows the easier it becomes to replace them. Its one of the curses of London.”
—E.M. (Edward Morgan)
“With this pen I take in hand my selves
and with these dead disciples I will grapple.
Though rain curses the window
let the poem be made.”
—Anne Sexton (19281974)
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