Dead

Famous quotes containing the word dead:

    To girls and wives always alive and fated;
    To men and scholars always dead like Greek
    And always mistranslated.
    Karl Shapiro (b. 1913)

    Study me then, you who shall lovers be
    At the next world, that is, at the next spring:
    For I am every dead thing,
    In whom love wrought new alchemy.
    For his art did express
    A quintessence even from nothingness,
    From dull privations, and lean emptiness:
    He ruined me, and I am re-begot
    Of absence, darkness, death: things which are not.
    John Donne (1572–1631)