Famous quotes containing the words allen, sceptre and/or birthright:
“You got a lotta nerve
To say you are my friend
When I was down
You just stood there grinning.”
—Bob Dylan [Robert Allen Zimmerman] (b. 1941)
““Mother of heaven, regina of the clouds,
O sceptre of the sun, crown of the moon,
There is not nothing, no, no, never nothing,
Like the clashed edges of two words that kill.””
—Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)
“Let it be stairways, and a splintery box
Where you have thrown me, scraped me with your kiss,
Have honed me, have released me after this
Cavern kindness smiled away our shocks.
That is the birthright of our lovely love
In swaddling clothes.”
—Gwendolyn Brooks (b. 1917)