Gaunt Stranger

Famous quotes containing the words gaunt and/or stranger:

“Only the gaunt fierce bird
Flies, merciless with fear
Lest air hold him not,
Beats up the scaffold of space
Sick of the world’s rot
God’s hideous face.”
—Allen Tate (1899–1979)

“He whom God has touched will always be a being apart: he is, whatever he may do, a stranger among men; he is marked by a sign.”
—Ernest Renan (1823–1892)