Famous quotes containing the words dead and/or power:
“So up and down I sow them
For lads like me to find,
When I shall lie below them,
A dead man out of mind.”
—A.E. (Alfred Edward)
“Cruelty is a mystery, and the waste of pain. But if we describe a word to compass these things, a world that is a long, brute game, then we bump against another mystery: the inrush of power and delight, the canary that sings on the skull.”
—Annie Dillard (b. 1945)