Legends

Famous quotes containing the word legends:

“Farm boys wild to couple
With anything with soft-wooded trees
With mounds of earthmounds
Of pine straw will keep themselves off
Animals by legends of their own:”
—James Dickey (b. 1923)

“Therefore our legends always come around to seeming legendary,
A path decorated with our comings and goings. Or so I’ve been told.”
—John Ashbery (b. 1927)

“Sometimes legends make reality, and become more useful than the facts.”
—Salman Rushdie (b. 1947)