Government Sponsored Bodies

Famous quotes containing the words government, sponsored and/or bodies:

    “I thought it a pity that some poor student did not live there, to profit by all that light, since he would not rob the mariner.... Think of fifteen Argand lamps to read the newspaper by! Government oil!—light enough, perchance, to read the Constitution by! I thought that he should read nothing less than his Bible by that lamp.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    “The poetic notion of infinity is far greater than that which is sponsored by any creed.”
    —Joseph Brodsky (b. 1940)

    “Bodies of holy men and women exude
    Miraculous oil, odour of violet.
    But under heavy loads of trampled clay
    Lie bodies of the vampires full of blood;
    Their shrouds are bloody and their lips are wet.”
    —William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)