Famous quotes containing the words maimed and/or king:
“We are maimed and weak,
and yet
I was dead
and you woke me,
now you are gone,
I am dead.”
—Hilda Doolittle (1886–1961)
“I am as unfit for any practical purpose—I mean for the furtherance of the world’s ends—as gossamer for ship-timber; and I, who am going to be a pencil-maker to-morrow, can sympathize with God Apollo, who served King Admetus for a while on earth.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)