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)
“King Herod shrieking vengeance at the curled
Up knees of Jesus choking in the air,
A king of speechless clods and infants. Still
The world out-Herods Herod;”
—Robert Lowell (1917–1977)