Doubled Stakes

Famous quotes containing the words doubled and/or stakes:

“What of the heart without her? Nay, poor heart,
Of thee what word remains ere speech be still?
A wayfarer by barren ways and chill,
Steep ways and weary, without her thou art,
Where the long cloud, the long wood’s counterpart,
Sheds doubled darkness up the labouring hill.”
—Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828–1882)

“Law makes long spokes of the short stakes of men.”
—William Empson (1906–1984)