Famous quotes containing the words defeated, mike and/or angels:
“Lest darkness fall and time fall
In a long night when learned arteries
Mounting the ice and sum of barbarous time
Shall yield, without essence, perfect accident.
We are the eyelids of defeated caves.”
—Allen Tate (18991979)
“Mrs. Robinson, youre trying to seduce me. Arent you?”
—Calder Willingham, screenwriter, Buck Henry, screenwriter, and Mike Nichols. Ben Braddock (Dustin Hoffman)
“Ah wretched We, Poets of Earth! but Thou
Wert Living the same Poet which thourt Now,
Whilst Angels sing to thee their ayres divine,
And joy in an applause so great as thine.
Equal society with them to hold,
Thou needst not make new Songs, but say the Old.”
—Abraham Cowley (16181667)