Golden Calf Story

Famous quotes containing the words golden, calf and/or story:

    All the chosen coin of fancy
    flashing out from many a golden phrase;
    Alfred Tennyson (1809–1892)

    Small, black, as flies hanging in heat, the Boys,
    Until the distance throws them forth, their hum
    Bulges to thunder held by calf and thigh.
    Thom Gunn (b. 1929)

    A story of particular facts is a mirror which obscures and distorts that which should be beautiful; poetry is a mirror which makes beautiful that which it distorts.
    Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792–1822)