Defeated Mann Cup

Famous quotes containing the words defeated, mann and/or cup:

    The poet is he who fights on the passionate
    Side and whoever loses he wins; when he
    Is defeated it is hard to say who wins....
    Allen Tate (1899–1979)

    Disease makes men more physical, it leaves them nothing but body.
    —Thomas Mann (1875–1955)

    In poorer lands
    No one touches the water of life.
    It has no taste
    And though it refreshes absolutely
    It is a cup that must also pass
    Until everybody
    Gets some advantage....
    John Ashbery (b. 1927)