Iron Heel

Famous quotes containing the words iron and/or heel:

    ““Ego non baptizo te in nomine patris, sed in nomine diaboli!” deliriously howled Ahab, as the malignant iron scorchingly devoured the baptismal blood.”
    —Herman Melville (1819–1891)

    “What do I care
    that the stream is trampled,
    the sand on the stream-bank
    still holds the print of your foot:
    the heel is cut deep.”
    —Hilda Doolittle (1886–1961)