Hard Strike

Famous quotes containing the words hard and/or strike:

“A pious woman’s neighbor, a philanthropist’s child, a liberal’s servant—these three have a hard life.”
—Franz Grillparzer (1791–1872)

“Is this then a touch? quivering me to a new identity,
Flames and ether making a rush for my veins,
Treacherous tip of me reaching and crowding to help them,
My flesh and blood playing out lightning to strike what is hardly
different from myself,
On all sides prurient provokers stiffening my limbs,”
—Walt Whitman (1819–1892)