John of Gaunt

Famous quotes containing the words john and/or gaunt:

“Fair, rich, and young: how rare is her perfection,
Were it not mingled with one foul infection!
I mean, so proud a heart, so curst a tongue,
As makes her seem nor fair, nor rich, nor young.”
—Sir John Harington (1561–1612)

“The gaunt guitarists on the strings
Rumbled a-day and a-day, a-day.”
—Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)