Long Swords

Famous quotes containing the words long and/or swords:

“It never worked for me.
Something to do with violence
A long way back, and wrong rewards,
And arrogant eternity.”
—Philip Larkin (1922–1986)

“When men change swords for ledgers, and desert
The student’s bower for gold, some fears unnamed
I had, my Country—am I to be blamed?”
—William Wordsworth (1770–1850)